He has won numerous awards, such as, among others, distinction in the competition ‘Young Composers of the Next Generation’ held at the Athens Concert Hall (2000, Athens), second prize in his final examinations on composition (2002, Athens), three prizes in the International Composition Competitions (2008 & 2010, Volos, Greece), three prizes and a special mention in the International Music Prizes for Excellence in Composition (2009 & 2011, Thessaloniki, Greece), second prize in the 2nd Shakuhachi Chamber Music International Prize (2010, Melbourne, Australia), fourth prize in the International Composition Contest ‘Yin & Yang’ (2010, Taipei, Taiwan), and a special mention in the IBLA World Music Competition (2011, New York, USA). Furthermore, he has been presented with an honorary diploma in the International Composition Competition, Choir Laboratory XXI century, Music for Children and Youth (2012, St. Petersburg, Russian Federation), and has been chosen as finalist at the International Competition London Consorts of Winds (2013, London, UK). His works have been selected for performance at the 2nd ‘Alfeo Gigli’ International Festival of Composition (1997, Bologna, Italy), for the final examinations of the Brussels Conservatoire (2009, Belgium), for the 18th International Review of Composers (2009, Belgrade, Serbia), by the CoMA and Allcomers Music Library (2013, UK) and the London Contemporary Chamber Orchestra (2014, UK), and have been included in the Digital Musical Anthology ‘Euterpe’: Greek songs for schools (2014). In 2009 he was elected Honorary Fellow of the National Academy of Music (Colorado, U.S.A.).
His work includes more than 120 compositions of different forms and for diverse means, such as educational music for children, chamber music, song cycles, theatrical music, two operas and orchestral music. His research interests range from science fiction opera and the harmony of the spheres, to the music education of people with special needs, immigrants, and the elderly, through the use of new technologies and within the context of cross-cultural education. He has authored the following publications: ‘A Handbook for Entrance Examinations to Music Departments of Universities’ (3 editions), ‘The Microcosm of Manos Hadjidakis’, ‘Six Works 2000-2004’, ‘Rembetiko in Schools’ and ‘Icaromenippus is Flying Over Our School’. He has edited the collective works ‘36 Scores for All’, a publication which is currently taught at the Music Therapy Department of the Artistotle University of Thessaloniki, and ‘20 Braille Music Scores by Greek Composers’, for blind or partially-sighted people. His scores, books and CD’s have been published and are available through Reed Music, Agenda Edizioni per la Musica, Philippos Nakas, Panas Music, Orpheus and Lighthouse for the Blind of Greece publications. He has contributed towards twenty further books and conference proceedings in Greece and internationally. He has been an educator in the Peripheral Educative Centres educational programmes for teachers (2014) and a member of the evaluating committee of the books used in Primary Education Music (2015). He was seconded as a consultant for Music to the Greek Institute for Educational Policy (2017-18). Between 2007 and 2011 he was the artistic director of the Municipal Conservatory of Hymettus (Athens), and since 2013 he holds this position at the ‘Alypius’ Music School (Piraeus).