Professor Algirdas Budrys (born March 3, 1939) is a
Lithuania
Lithuania, officially the Republic of Lithuania, is a country in the Baltic region of Europe. It is one of three Baltic states and lies on the eastern shore of the Baltic Sea, bordered by Latvia to the north, Belarus to the east and south, P ...
n musician and head of the wind department of the
Lithuanian Music Academy.
Primarily a
clarinet
The clarinet is a Single-reed instrument, single-reed musical instrument in the woodwind family, with a nearly cylindrical bore (wind instruments), bore and a flared bell.
Clarinets comprise a Family (musical instruments), family of instrume ...
ist, Budrys has recorded more than 50 LPs and has made over a hundred radio recordings with a repertoire that included all the principal classical and chamber ensemble works for clarinet from Mozart to contemporary composers.
Budrys has given concerts in all former Soviet republics, as well as in Hungary, Poland, the Czech Republic, Germany, Finland, France, Egypt, Great Britain and the United States.
For his efforts to improve Lithuanian culture and art, Budrys was awarded a fourth-degree
Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
The Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas is the Lithuanian Presidential Award which was re-instituted to honour the citizens of Lithuania for outstanding performance in civil and public offices. Foreign nationals may also be awarded this O ...
in 1999.
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prof. Algirdas Budrys, klarnetininkas Lithuanian Music Academy. Retrieved 2010-12-21.
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Living people
Lithuanian music educators
1939 births
Musicians from Vilnius
Officer's Crosses of the Order of the Lithuanian Grand Duke Gediminas
Academic staff of the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
21st-century clarinetists