Composer, musician and pianist Mimis Plessas died on Saturday, a week before his 100th birthday, his wife, Loukila Carrer Plessa, said in a post on social media.
He was born on October 12, 1924, in Athens. He attended the Leonteios Lyceum and then studied chemistry at the University of Athens. He continued his studies to the United States.
At an early age he became the first piano soloist at Greece’s radio station. In 1952, he was awarded the University of Minnesota’s top music prize.
In 1952 he started working as a composer and he has been a conductor and composer since 1956. He was distinguished seven times internationally (Barcelona in 1960, Warsaw in 1962, Belgium in 1963, Italy (Alto Monte) in 1964, USA in 1965, Paris in 1968 and Tokyo in 1970) and six times in Greece (Athens and Thessaloniki in 1959, 1963, 1964 and 1967).
