Βorn in 1993 in Athens, Kordis holds a PhD in Historical Musicology (Department of Music Studies NKUA). His doctoral dissertation attempts to define the idea of sacred in the work of the English composer John Tavener (1944-2013). He studied musicology in the same department and holds a Master of Music, with an emphasis in Conducting, from the Bard Conservatory (New York). He also studied Orchestral and Choral Conducting in the UK, Czech Republic, Sweden, and the USA with Kurt Masur, Donald Schleicher, David Hill, John Dickson, Kirk Trevor, Markand Thakar, and Tomas Netopil, to name a few. He holds artist diplomas in Choral Conducting and Piano Performance and teaching degrees (ptychion) in Byzantine Music and Advanced Music Theory. He is a member of the academic societies ENID (University of Bergen, Norway) and ISOCM (University of Eastern Finland).
He collaborates as a curator and laboratory assistant with Onassis Stegi and Panteion University as part of the Music Bridge over Syggrou program. Pavlos works as a repetiteur and vocal coach for the Young Artists Program, Camerata Bardi Vocal Academy (Teatro Grattacielo, New York), where he collaborates with opera professionals worldwide. He composes music for the theater (O Erastis, Neos Kosmos Theatre), TV (San Paramythi, ERT), and art installations (ICHNI | Trails, KET). He collaborates as a composer with the German audio company Native Instruments and the production company RGB Studios (Athens). Inspired by his professor Nikos Maliaras, he organized numerous concerts and activities for the Greek operatic repertoire in America, and in 2017, he conducted the American premiere of Pavlos Karrer's opera Markos Botsaris (1860), orchestrated by Byron Fidetzis in New York. He appeared as a pianist in events of the Greek Consulate General in New York, the Archdiocese of America, and more. Since 2018, he has been the director of the Mets Arts Center gallery in Athens, presenting the work of artists from Greece and abroad. He is the co-founder of the non-profit organization Mavropinakas, which is an initiative aimed at the implementation and promotion of artistic works of young creators while utilizing new technologies and pioneering sound systems.
His research interests include the choral repertoire of the 20th and 21st centuries with particular emphasis on postmodern creation, American minimalism and postminimalism and the way they exist in Europe, the Greek operatic repertoire of the 21st century with reference to folklore elements and generally to elements of popular culture, the type of oratorio in Greece in the 21st century, and issues concerning the musical analysis of religious music and the relationship between music and theology.
