He was born on Niğde, Cappadocia, Turkey on 07/23/1892. In his youth he took harmony and piano lessons in Istanbul. He continued his studies at the American Robert College of Istanbul (1906-1911). In 1911 he went to Paris to study law in Sorbonne and political sciences at the Ecole Libre des Sciences. He soon returned to Greece to participate in the Balkan Wars (1912), and was wounded during military operations in Epirus. He acquired Greek citizenship. Returning to Paris, he devoted himself to the study of music and composition (1913). During WWI he remained in France. He was a music critic with London's journal The Musical Times. In 1918 he took over the management of the press office of the Greek Embassy in London. At the same time he gave lectures on Greek music at King’s College London. He taught Greek language at Sorbonne (1919-21). Having taken a few lessons from conductor Albert Wolff and composer Albert Roussel, he considered himself to be self-taught. He initially worked on the harmonization of Greek folk songs and later included elements of Byzantine music and explored the tropical scales. He composed several symphonic works, an opera, chamber music and vocal works. He was a contributor with the Athens newspapers Elefthero Vima, Proia, Kathimerini, Vima and Boston’s Christian Science Monitor. He was elected a corresponding member of the French Academy of Fine Arts (1958) and a member of the Academy of Athens (1959). He died in Athens on 20/08/1977. During the period 1944-1975 he worked with the GNO as a conductor, directing the oratorio St. Paul, staged at Herodeion to celebrate the 1900 years from Apostle Paul’s arrival in Greece (1951) and the ballet The Peddler [O Promitheftis] (1943/44, 1947/48, 1957/58).