George Petras was born in Athens, Greece in 1966. He holds a PhD in musicology, music technology and composition (National & Kapodistrian University of Athens - NKUA). The title of his doctoral dissertation is "Voice and interactive media in ancient drama. Musicological and technological extensions to the environment Max/MSP". Also, he has two postgraduate diplomas, one in "Arts and Technologies of Sound" where he specialized in the composition of electroacoustic music (Ionian University) and another in "Music Culture and Communication: Anthropological and philosophical extensions of music" (NKUA). He studied Composition at the Athenaeum Conservatory and piano at the Orpheus Conservatory of Athens. He graduated from the Political Science Department of the NKUA. He systematically dealt with the composition and his works have been performed in Athens, in Corfu, at the Music Megaron of Thessaloniki and elsewhere.
He works at the Greek National School of Dance. Ηe has been involved in the teaching of music from a variety of posts (worked as a Music professor teaching Music theory, Piano and Music Technology in Conservatories, in public schools and Universities etc.). He was responsible for digitizing, documenting and cataloguing of the Music Archive of the National Theatre of Greece. He has worked as a cultural development consultant for the European Program "Artists in Action". He has published articles in international conferences and scientific journals.
