Panagiotis (Panos) Liaropoulos is an award-winning composer and professor of composition at Berklee College of Music, where he has taught since 2010. Born in Athens and based in Boston since 1997, he holds a doctorate in composition from Boston University, where he studied as a Fulbright Scholar with Theodore Antoniou and Lukas Foss. His music has received major international awards and has been commissioned and performed by leading orchestras and ensembles across the United States and Europe, including the Boston Pops, the Albany Symphony, and the Greek Radio Symphony Orchestra. As a music director, arranger, and pianist, he has collaborated with prominent Greek artists in major venues worldwide, while his annual Berklee concerts highlight diverse genres of Hellenic music. He is the creator of the Digital Audiovisual Folk Music Archive of Amorgos and its Islands, founder and music director of the Greek Music Ensemble, and president of ALEA III, the contemporary music ensemble in residence at Boston University. He also serves as founder and president of the Center for Hellenic Music and Culture, a nonprofit dedicated to the preservation and promotion of Hellenic musical heritage.