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Antonis Skokos is a composer for film, television and the concert stage. Trained at the Schola Cantorum de Paris as an Onassis Foundation scholar, he has earned thirty certified records and works between Los Angeles and Athens.

Antonis Skokos is a Composer, conductor and pianist working between Los Angeles and Athens. Born into a family of musicians - his grandparents taught at the National Conservatory of Athens, and his father played alongside Vangelis - he began piano at six and graduated from the Schola Cantorum de Paris with the Golden Prize as an Onassis Foundation scholar.

Across a three-decade career, he has scored television, theatre and film, served as musical director on flagship Greek broadcasts including ANT1, SKAI and ALPHA networks, and contributed to thirty certified records: thirteen Gold, nine Platinum and eight Multiplatinum. His work spans cinematic genres from orchestral drama to trailer hybrids, and concert compositions for solo piano and orchestra.

Antonis Skokos is a Composer, conductor, musical director and pianist working between Los Angeles and Athens. The link between his family and music dates to the 1930s, when his grandparents taught classical piano at the National Conservatory of Athens. His grandmother Katina Skokou was his first teacher.

His father played drums in The Forminx, the legendary Greek band that included Vangelis, the Academy Award–winning composer of Blade Runner and Chariots of Fire. The godfather of his father was Dimitri Mitropoulos, conductor of the New York Philharmonic. Antonis began piano at six.

At eleven he entered the Athens Conservatory, studying with Pari Derebei and Dora Bakopoulou alongside theory and counterpoint with Konstantinos Kydoniatis, jazz with Markos Alexiou and music for theatre and cinema with George Bountouvis and Dimitris Papadimitriou. In 1992 he was awarded the four-year Onassis Public Benefit Foundation scholarship, taking him to Paris.

At the CIM École de Jazz he studied with Sammy Abenaim, Ivan Jullien (Michel Legrand's former orchestrator), Kenny Werner, Douglas Clare Fisher and Bill Dobbins. He continued at the École Normale and Schola Cantorum de Paris, studying composition, orchestration and conducting under Patrice Sciortino - a student of Stravinsky - graduating with the Golden Prize and the Silver Medal awarded by Henri Dutilleux.

Returning to Greece in 1997, he served as musical director, conductor and arranger for flagship television productions including Aftí Eínai i Zoí Sou (ANT1), the Greek adaptation of Singing Bee on SKAI, and Amstel Live, produced by Marc Jansen who later produced The Voice in the United States. His catalogue includes thirteen Gold, nine Platinum and eight Multiplatinum certified records.

Today his work spans original scores for film, television and theatre, alongside concert compositions for solo piano and orchestra.