[1] He was born in Platanoussa, Epirus in 1914 and studied the violin from 1930 to 1939 at the Greek National Conservatory in Athens.
Later on, he switched to the viola and from 1949 started composition lessons with Leonidas Zoras and Manolis Kalomiris, receiving his diploma in 1955.
[1] He is considered one of Greece's most important modern composers, with a personal musical idiom that is both mature and laconic.
[1] He won a number of major prizes, including the Maria Callas award from the Hellenic Broadcasting Corporation in 1997 and the prestigious J.
He played for twenty years in the Greek National Opera as a violist and later served on the board of the Athens State Orchestra.