Dimitri majored in composition with Hermann Markus Pressl and Andreij Dobrowolski at the University of Music and Dramatic Arts at Graz in Austria. From 1998-2002 he held a Presidential Fellowship of the University of Iowa, U.S.A., for a Ph.D. in Composition with Donald Martin Jenni, Jeremy Dale Roberts, and David Karl Gompper. Since 2007, he is appointed as assistant professor of composition at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

For numerous of his works he has received awards in composition competitions and won call for scores, such as the Concert Etudes for Piccolo Composition Competition (2016 1st Place, Colorado, U.S.A.), Phasma-Music call for CD recording (2016, Poland/Athens), Matan Givol International Composers Competition (finalist 2016, Israel), SCI/ASCAP Student Composition Commission (2003 2nd Prize, New York, NY), Ensemble iiiiiiiii Internationally Call for Scores ’15 (Seoul, Korea), Ensemble Etcetera International Call for Scores (2013 San Diego, U..S.A.), etc. He is also the recipient of the Doris Wolff Prize (Austria, 1991) and the Hancher-Finkbine Student Leader Award (University of Iowa, 2002).

He has received commissions by several institutions and ensembles, such as SCI/ASCAP (U.S.A.), Institute for Electronic Music and Acoustics of the University of Music and Drama at Graz, Austrian National Radio (ÖRF) and Literature Forum Graz, Kultur Zentrum bei den Minoriten Graz, Thessaloniki Concert Hall, Dimitri Polisoidis (violist of the ensemble Klangforum, Austria), Ensemble Interface (Germany), Zeitfluss Ensemble (Austria), Thessaloniki Concert Hall, UMS & JIP (Switzerland), Trio IAMA (Greece), Ensemble Etcetera (USA), duo Goliardi (Greece), etc.

He is the co-founder of the dissonart ensemble, which he served from 2005 to 2014, and he is the co-director of the Contemporary Music Lab (http://cml.web.auth.gr) at the Department of Music Studies of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki.

His scores are available by BabelScores