A versatile performer, Papadakis has recorded several works especially written for him by contemporary composers, many of which have been broadcast on radio and television. Equally at home performing Bach’s English Suites or Ligeti’s Etudes for Piano, Papadakis possesses an unusually broad repertory, including some 70 concerti and over 300 works for solo piano, in addition to numerous chamber works.

Commemorating the bicentennial year of Franz Liszt’s birth, in 2011 Papadakis embarked on an ambitious cycle of recitals of some of Liszt’s shorter and less known works. In the spring of 2011, he recorded a new and unique CD of 16 miniature Liszt masterpieces entitled The Short Liszt.

In May 2000, Papadakis was invited to join Boston University College of Fine Arts’s piano faculty where he has remained for several years. In 2006, Papadakis was appointed the Samuel Barber Artist in Residence at West Chester University in West Chester, Pennsylvania, where he remained until 2011. He also holds the prestigious Motoko and Gordon Deane Principal Chair as pianist for the Atlantic Symphony Orchestra in Boston and recently he rejoined the piano faculty at Boston University’s College of Fine Arts. He also directs the Summer Piano Academy in Archanes, Greece.