Menelaos Peistikos (22 August 1995) is a Greek composer and pianist. His music is inspired by an extreme variety of musical genres, ranging from baroque and renaissance music to contemporary classical and cinematic music, as well as from folk Greek to Japanese, Tibetan and Indonesian Gamelan music. In February 2019, Menelaos won the 3rd Prize and 1st Prize of Public at the 7th Molinari String Quartet Composition Competition in Montreal, Canada, for his string-quartet composition For Sun’s light. In December 2018, he won the 2nd Prize at the 4th Opus Dissonus International Composition Competition for solo piano in Brazil for his composition On the Vision and The Riddle. More recently, he was selected as one of the six winners at the Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra Call for Scores (2022) for his orchestral composition A Mystic Journey. He was also selected as one of the four winners at the 2021 Open Call for Young Greek Composers – Israeli Chamber Project for his composition A Glimpse of Autumn. He has received commissions from Thessaloniki State Symphony Orchestra, Megaron Music Thessaloniki and Athens Concert Hall. He holds a MA in Composition in University of Toronto under the supervision of composer Christos Hatzis, and since September 2022 he began there his DMA in Composition where he is admitted with a full tuition scholarship. Menelaos is the recipient of Nikos Evdemon Graduate Scholarship, University of Toronto Fellowship and the Hellenic Initiative Scholarship.