his keyboard studies whilst completing an MMus in composition with Dr. Anthony Gilbert. A prestigious scholarship from the Greek State Scholarship Fund (I.K.Y.) in 2003, enabled him to continue with research in composition first at Cambridge where he obtained an Mphil, the highest qualification that the University awards to composers. From 2004 he is a full time doctoral student at the University of York where he works under the supervision of Dr. William Brooks on scholarships from I.K.Y. and the Holy Synod of the Greek Orthodox Church.

During his studies in the U.K. Panos has taken every opportunity to attend extra-curricular courses, to perform in masterclasses and to discuss his work with established composers. In 1998 and 2000 he was a scholar at the Edinburgh Course for Piano teachers where he had lessons with Ruth Gerald and Philip Jenkins. In 2000 he also received a stipendium to study at the Krakow International Summer School with Prof. Andrzej Pikul (piano) and Marek Stachowski (composition). During his studies at the RNCM he took part in master-classes with Chris Rowland, Ian Brown and Zvi Zeitlin (chamber music), Harrison Birtwistle, Joseph Brody and James MacMillan (composition) and Renna Kellaway, Helen Krizos, Bernard Roberts and Alexander Melnikov (piano). In 2004 he played to Heli Ignatius-Fleet and had composition lessons with Jonathan Harvey, Ken Hesketh, Arlene Sierra, Richard Causton, Robin Holloway, Alejandro Viñao and Jeremy Thurlow. In 2005 he was a Lyra Zurich scholar at the prestigious Ftan International Festival for pianists where he studied with Peter Feuchtwanger and took part in Galina Vracheva’s improvisation workshops as well as a scholar at the Chetham’s International Piano Summer School where he learned with Anton Kuerti. Over the years Panos has also attended master-classes given by musical personalities such as Roberto Szidon, Martin Roscoe, Stephen Hough, Peter Donohoe, Angela Hewitt, Konstantin Scherbakov and Paul Lewis (piano), William Bennett (flute/chamber music) and Galina Pisarenko (voice).

Panos’s debut professional public recital was given at the Edinburgh Society of Musicians in May 2000. Following this, he has been busy performing recitals and chamber music concerts in numerous music society venues and in international festivals in Edinburgh, Krakow, Vertiscus, Ftan, and elsewhere. In 2003-2004 Panos played a near 30 solo recitals and is now maintaining a busy performing life. As a chamber music pianist, he has established his own ensembles, the Tetractys quartet (RNCM 2001-2003) and the Anaeresis Ensemble (2001-). He is very much in demand as an accompanist and is a member of Ensemble New York. The list of premieres of new pieces he has given is growing and his performances have been broadcast on radio and recorded professionally by Dunelm Records on three CDs with more recordings scheduled for the future.

Mr Demopoulos’s music has been commissioned and performed by amongst others the Britten Sinfonia, Sarah Nicholls, Harry Spaarnay, the Birtwistle Resonances Festival, Tui Clark, the Chimera Ensemble, the Thessaloniki State Conservatoire, Ensemble New York, Angelica Cathariou, the Quintessensis quintet, the Cambridge Gamelan, CUMIS, the Megaron new music workshops and the Anaeresis Ensemble. His works have been heard in Italy, Finland, the Czech Republic, Poland, Switzerland, the U.K. and Greece and his music is published by Anaeresis and recorded by Dunelm Records. Styx for solo flute was the set work in the 2000 Woodwind competition in Thessaloniki. In 2001 Panos won the Edinburgh International Festival Association competition in composition with Tetractys for solo piano and in 2003 he won the Britten Sinfonia competition with Music for a finer vesper which was consequently scheduled for a broadcast by the BBC.

In 2003 he was one of the composers-in-residence for CUMIS (Cambridge University Moving Image Studio); his work for CUMIS has been presented in biennale exhibitions in Italy and Prague as part of competition winning entries and he continues to collaborate with film makers from the area. Together with the poet Kai Fierle Hedrick whom he met in Cambridge, he wrote String Theories, a set of pieces for piano and electronics, which was premiered in York in 2005. The original director Emma Jussila from Finland also commissioned and played his music for her puppetry theatre in 2005 and he is now working with choreographers from the Northern School of Dance for a series of projects in 2006. His 88 etudes for the piano, commissioned by the Dutch pianist Jorrit van den Ham, are due for completion in early 2006 as is his song cycle Ktenody for the mezzo soprano Angelica Cathariou.

Panos is interested in all kinds of music. He has sung for college choirs, played for a gamelan ensemble, big bands and other small ensembles and has been a member of the Kozani-based experimental music group Benjerle for over 8 years. His musicological research and seminars have included work on Alois Hába, Brahms, Webern, Grisey, Gubaidulina, MacMillan, spectral music, music and language and microtonal music. Panos has published critical and literary texts in both English and Greek. He plays the point guard position for the University of York men’s basketball team.