He was born in 1977 in Ioannina, where he grew up. He began his musical studies, both theoretical and practical, at the age of seven. The first instruments he was taught were the keyboard, guitar, bouzouki and percussion. At the age of ten he started studying flute and shortly afterwards traditional clarinet. He has a degree in harmony, a diploma in flute and a diploma in Byzantine Music. He is a graduate of the Department of Music Studies of the Faculty of Philosophy of the University of Athens.
As a flutist he was a founding and principal member of the Ioannina Youth Symphony Orchestra since 1987 and has performed in many concerts in Greece and abroad with distinguished Greek and foreign conductors.
As a traditional clarinetist he took his first lessons next to the great Epirus teacher Gregory Kapsalis. He has participated as a musician in concerts, recordings, performances as well as in radio and television programs with many of the greatest contemporary composers and singers from the art folk scene, as well as from the field of traditional music.
In 2004 he participated in the Opening and Closing Ceremonies of the Athens Olympic Games.
He taught traditional wind instruments for four years at the Department of Folk and Traditional Music at the Technical University of Epirus. Today he is a professor at the Athens Conservatory of Music in the class of traditional clarinet, he is a member of the music group “Takim” and is working on his doctoral thesis on the Zagorochoria of Epirus.