His wife Susan Auerbach Matthias says this about him:
Miltiades was born in Athens Greece on October 30, 1933. He was a concert pianist and composer who gave more than 1,000 recitals, many featuring compositions by Greeks, in New York and around the world. He studied at the Royal Conservatory of Athens and has Bachelor’s and Master’s degrees from the College Conservatory of Music at the University of Cincinnati. He was an admired teacher and choir director.
Miltiades was also a gifted linguist. Together, we translated from modern Greek the 1919 novel, Condemned, by Konstantinos Theotokis, which is scheduled to be published shortly by the Hellenic Literature Society. Miltiades also translated from Spanish into Greek the One Hundred Love Sonnets of Pablo Neruda and a collection of Shakespearian sonnets, maintaining the complex rhyme scheme. He also translated into from Greek into English the complete poetic works of Nobel Laureate George Seferis and of Konstantinos Cavafy.
Miltiades leaves two daughters and six grandchildren: daughter Jennifer Matthias Chamoures and her four children, Gabrielle Selino, Andre Selino, Isabelle Selino, and Sophia Selino; and daughter Mara Matthias Marsico and her two children Rebecca Marsico and Peter Marsico Jr.
We had been together for 45 years and I miss him terribly.
-- Susan Auerbach Matthias
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