Kostis Demertzis is one of the oldest and most knowledgeable scholars of Nikos Skalkottas. His doctoral dissertation on Skalkottas Orchestration, published as a large-format book in 1998, is essentially the first scholarly monograph on the great, internationally acclaimed Greek composer. Since then, Demertzis has continued to study Skalkottas, publishing numerous articles (studies, reviews, conference papers, lectures, notes) in the newspapers Proodeftiki Evia and Kathimerini Evia. These texts, while based on Demertzis’s vast knowledge as a specialist of the work of Skalkottas and maintaining the virtues of meticulous scholarly work, are presented in an engaging way that appeals to a wide audience, providing details of a comprehensive Skalkottas-related subject matter. Thanks to its sheer volume, broadness of themes and appealing writing, the work Parallel Texts on Skalkottas by Kostis Demertzis is undoubtedly the most significant and useful contribution to the composer’s memory and our understanding of him to have been published in the last twenty-five years.