Robert Eliscu

American wind instrument artist, mainly oboe, conductor and composer, born in 1944 in Georgia, USA; died October 11, 1996.
Eliscú studied oboe and musicology in Rochester, NY. His studies led him to Berlin in the 1960's. At the end of the 1960's he went to Munich as oboist of the Münchner Philharmoniker. In that stage, he was part of the artist scene in Munich-Haidhausen, where he met and Peter Michael Hamel in a club called "Song Parnass". In the following years, they met there other musicians from around the world. In 1970, a small group of musicians decided to form a band between Pop and Classical music. The band was first called B.A.C.H. and was eventually renamed to Between.
Eliscu was oboist and flutist of the band and stayed with the band until it split in 1980. While his part in Between, he still was part of the Munich classical orchester and was also temporary working for other Krautrock and Jazz Rock bands as Popol Vuh (1973-1978) or Sameti (1972). From 1975 to 1980, he also composed scores for film and TV.
In 1980, he moved to Holland, where he was oboist until 1986, later he was conductor for a couple of orchestras in Germany and Holland. Additionally, he stayed active in composing.
Eliscu died in 1996 in a plane crash.