Dimitri Mitropoulos is an internationally renowned musician, composer and pianist. He’s one of the most influential composers of the world. He conducted over 2.000 concerts and composed 40 works, like the opera Sister Beatrice, orchestra music, chamber music and works for piano and voice.

Born on February 18^th, 1896, in Athens.

He studied piano and composition at the Athens Conservatoire and graduated in 1919 with excellence.

As an undergraduate, he had the opportunity to conduct the conservatoire’s Symphonic Orchestra on April 29^th, 1915.

Moreover, he studied choir conducting and composition at the Athens Conservatoire and later in Berlin.

In 1924, he relocated to Athens and started working as the maestro of the Athens Conservatoire’s Symphonic Orchestra, while following his international career conducting eminent European ensembles.

His international debut was on February 27^th, 1930, when he conducted the Berlin Philharmonic Orchestra, also appearing as a soloist playing the Piano Concerto No. 3 by Prokofiev.

He first visited the United States in 1936 to conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra, accepting an invitation by director Serge Koussevitzky.

During the years from 1938 to 1949, he served the Symphony Orchestra of Minneapolis, establishing it as one of the most prestigious orchestras of the United States.

In 1949, he joined the New York Philharmonic as a co-conductor and later as the sole music director and artistic administrator up to 1957.

During the summer of 1955, he joined an extensive European tour of the New York Philharmonic, making a stop in Athens after a 17-year long absence.

He died on November 2^nd, 1960, of heart failure, while rehearsing Gustav Mahler’s 3^rd Symphony in the Teatro alla Scala of Milan.