Composer · Composer and pianist
Menelaos Peistikos
Biography
Menelaos Peistikos is a Greek composer and pianist, born in 1995. He studied composition with Altin Volaj and Costas Tsougras before continuing at the University of Toronto with Christos Hatzis.
His awards include prizes in the Molinari and Opus Dissonus composition competitions and the 2025 Karen Kieser Prize in Canadian Music. His work explores sound colour, meditation and influences from Japanese music and Zen philosophy. Performers of his music include the Molinari and JACK quartets and the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra. He also presents concerts of his own music as a pianist and writes philosophical fiction.