Χριστόδουλος Χάλαρης has been played on NTS in shows including NTS Guide to…, featured first on 9 March 2023. Songs played include Persian Song "Persikon Yeleyeleli". Third Plagal Mode.

Χριστόδουλος Χάλαρης, (Christodoulos Halaris), (Athens, Greece, 1946 - 30 January 2019) was a Greek composer and scholar.

A leading expert on the study and reconstruction of Byzantine and ancient Greek music, he turned to musicology and composing after studying mathematics in Paris. Taking his cues from religious iconography, traditional and popular Greek music, Hallaris began reconstructing fragmentary (and sometimes nonexistent) old Greek music documents. His re-imagining of secular Byzantine music, with what Hallaris identifies as roots…