Plessas Mimis

Known as the “Greek Gershwin”, Mimis Plessas is a prolific composer with a vast repertoire of classic hit songs, film scores, theater music, jazz, and symphonic pieces to his name and throughout his illustrious 50‐plus year career.
 
Born in Athens, Greece, this internationally renowned multi award‐winning Greek composer is considered one of the most popular Greek composers of our time. Aside from being a great musician, Plessas is also a chemistry graduate. In the 50s, he did his doctoral dissertation at Cornell University in New York on the protein myelin, a protein believed to be important in the process of myelination of nerves in the central nervous system (CNS) whose reduction of which is directly associated with Muscular Distrophy (MS). In 1951, as a young pianist in the U.S. he was bestowed the first music award at the University of Minnesota. The following year, he was recognized as the fifth best pianist in the U.S.
 
Plessas began composing in 1952 and has since received distinctions and illustrious accolades in Greece and internationally (Paris, Barcelona, Belgium, Edinburgh, United States, Tokyo, Carlovi Vari, Czech Republic, Altomonte, Italy).