Christodoros Mnasonos is a graduate of the Department of Traditional Music which belongs to the School of Art of the Technological Education Institute of Epirus, as well as The School of Philosophy of the University of Athens, specialising in Pedagogy. As part of his musical studies under the ethnomusicologist Markos Skoulios, he specialised in oud as a soloist, as well as a supervisory tool for teaching maqam, the eastern modal music system. He wrote his thesis on the effects of ideological and different types of musical influences on Cypriot music during the 1878-1931 period.
Since 2000, Christodoros Mnasonos has participated in multiple seminars and courses with musicians such as Markos Skoulios, Yurdal Tokcan, Baris Bal, Kyriakos Tapakis, Christos Tsiamoulis, Ross Daly, Eugenios Voulgaris, Nikos Antrikos, Christos Zotos, Kostis Kalaintzakis, Pantelis Despotidis, Vyron Kapsalis, Kyriakos Petras, Kyriakos Gouventas and George Psaltis amongst others.
Mnasonos is an active teacher and performer as well as founding member, leader and manager of various musical ensembles which mainly study the music of Constantinople and the Cypriot along with neighbouring regions’ traditional idioms, through the artistry and highly stylistic locality of its musical elements. Since 2009, he has been focusing on the teaching and pedagogical approach of eastern modal music and its application to instruments such as the oud, violin, lavta and yayli tanbur.
Currently, Mnasonos is teaching theory of multimodal melodic systems as well as the oud, lute, lavta, yayli tambur and violin at the University of Nicosia. He also teaches traditional music and instruments at the Cyprus Ministry of Education Music Schools. In 2016 he founded the Eastern Music Ensemble-Workshops “Prosanatolismos'' which aims to study and project the melodic multimodal idioms related to the music of Cyprus.