Grigoris Maninakis

A Professor of Engineering at the State University of New York, Grigoris is a long time member of the Cosmos FM family, since its inception, and currently a volunteer radio producer. For over thirty years he has been involved with quality Greek instrumental music and song having performed in some of the most prestigious music halls in the United States, Greece and Europe, including Alice Tully Hall, Carnegie Recital Hall , the Lycabettus and the Herodes Atticus theatres in Athens, as well many university campuses such as Harvard, Princeton , Yale, St. Louis , Cornell and many others. The leader of the Mikrokosmos Ensemble, he has produced several CDs with rebetika and contemporary Greek songs.

He is the producer of "THE GREEK SPIN" every Monday night.