Panaiotis is a composer whose works have been performed throughout the US, Europe, and Japan. He has toured worldwide as singer and as performer of computer assisted performance electronics. He has collaborated in the creation of seven compact disk recordings, two of which were chosen by The New York Times as among the top ten CDs of new music for their respective release years.

Panaiotis is currently engaged in the research and development of music as a medium to analyze complex data in virtual reality immersive environments using algorithmically generated music. Music for Reified Kidney is prominent in a Telemedicine VR simulation of the function of a kidney nephron. He has recently had requests for recordings of his network intrusion detection music.

His music installation in the main reception area of University of New Mexico’s Popejoy Performing Arts Center, which included a light sculpture by John Malolepsy, enjoyed a short life last Spring. Rising Sun is his most recent CD, a collaboration with Indian santurist Nandkishor Muley.

In 1999 he completed a project with the Relache Ensemble at the Atlantic Center for the Arts. The Labyrinth is both a multi-media performance work and an interactive website.

In 1988 Panaiotis co-founded the Deep Listening Band with Pauline Oliveros and Stuart Dempster. From 1988-1993 they performed in such places as a 14 foot deep underground cistern at Fort Warden in Washington state, where the band recorded two CDs (Deep Listening and The Ready-made Boomerang), an underground limestone mine in upstate New York (Troglodyte’s Delight), a lava cave on the Canary Islands, and Panasonic Hall in Tokyo where, for a five hour marathon concert, he moved the music of his colleagues and ten Japanese artists through a configuration of 750 loudspeakers that were built into the walls and ceiling.

Panaiotis has written music for numerous plays including a production of Death of a Salesman in Potsdam Germany and a sound track for a puppet theater production of The Tempest for the Basler Marionetten Theatre in Basel, Switzerland.

In 1994 Panaiotis received a grant from the National Endowment of the Arts to create his second opera, The Traveling Companion. That year he released his CD The Ballad of Frankie Silver, the title work of which has been performed throughout Europe by the Swiss dance company Tanz Ensemble Cathy Sharp. TECS gave Frankie Silver its US premiere at the UGA Arts ‘96 Olympic Cultural Festival.

Panaiotis holds a Master of Music degree from the New England Conservatory and a Ph.D. from the University of California, San Diego. He is a member ASCAP.