Panayiotis Demopoulos

Panayiotis Demopoulos was born in Athens and grew up in Kozani, Greece in a musical family. After playing music in many styles as a teenager, he commenced his formal studies with Margaret McLeod at Napier University, Edinburgh in 1996. In 2001 he received an award to study the piano with Murray McLachlan and composition with Tony Gilbert at the Royal Northern College of Music. From 2004 he was a scholar at Cambridge University and the University of York, successfully completing a PhD in composition in 2007.