Panaiotis is a conservatory trained composer who earned his Ph.D. in music at UC San Diego. He has performed worldwide as a singer and composer of electronic and acoustic music. His Ballad of Frankie Silver was preformed by a Swiss dance company at the ’96 Summer Olympics.
Panaiotis has been programming computers and developing technology for as long as he has been composing and performing music. He was a research assistant professor of Computer Engineering and Fine Arts at UNM, developing VR based data display systems for LANL and DTRA. He has been awarded three patents for his technology solutions.
More recently, Panaiotis developed a computer-based musical instrument designed to be accessible to people with physical, cognitive, and musical challenges. One of his interactive music systems was used in the Spinal Cord Injury Unit of the Raymond G. Murphy Department of Veterans Affairs Medical Center.
Panaiotis has been building websites since the turn of the century and is currently webmaster for VMFC and the Democratic Party of Bernalillo County, among others. He also gives private brass instrument lessons and discovered the rich pedagogical value of military bugle calls.
Panaiotis is a military family member whose father served in the Korean War and then the Army Military Reserves. His sister is a retired Navy Commander 05.