Panos Karan (born 1982[1][2]) is a British[3][4] classical pianist,[5] conductor[6] and composer[7] of Greek origin.[8] He was born in Crete,[1][9] and grew up in Athens,[2] where he graduated from the American College of Greece.[10] He studied piano at the Royal Academy of Music as a student of Sulamita Aronovsky.[11] He made his professional debut performance at the Southbank Centre at age 19.[12][13]