Born on Rhodes Island, he first studied cello at the Athens Conservatory and then vocals with Kostas Paskalis. In 1966, he won a Maria Callas Foundation grant and graduated from Daphne Evangelatos’s class at the Musikhochschule in Munich. He soon made his debut as Almaviva in Mozart’s The Marriage of Figaro at the Munich Prinzregententheater and won the Willi Domgraf-Fassbaender Price for young opera singers. In 1997-2003, Tiliakos was a member of the Nuremberg Opera, where he performed the major parts of the lyrical baritone repertory but also received great appreciation in roles such as Escamillo, Germont and Luna. He has been freelancing since 2003. He appeared in Bern, Karlsruhe and the Munich Biennale in modern operas and is a regular guest at the most important opera houses and concert halls of his native Greece, including the Greek National Opera and the Megaron in Athens, the Epidaurus Festival and the Megaron in Thessaloniki. The artist captivates his audiences not only with impressive vocal culture and noble timbre, but also with his extraordinary stage presence and interpretive power.