Tasos Chalkias

Anastasios Halkias or Tasos Halkias (last named also transliterated as Chalkias; Greek: Αναστάσιος Χαλκιάς; born 1914 in Ioannina, Epirus; died 1992 in Piraeus) was a famous Greek virtuoso of the clarinet. He is the father of Lakis Halkias (Greek: Λάκης Χαλκιάς). At the age of four, Halkias lost his father. When he was six, he asked his mother to buy him a Gypsy clarinet. He became an autodidact, not being being able to read sheet music.