He received a soloist education in piano by Dr. Nefen Michaelides in Limassol. From 2003 until 2006, he received composition and orchestration lessons by Maciej Zoltowsky. In 2004 he was awarded the Diploma ABRSM (Associated Board of the Royal Schools of Music)in Piano Performance.

After a short period of time studying at the State Academy of Music in Sofia, Bulgaria (Stella Dimitrova, Krassimir Taskov) as well as the City University and the Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London, UK (Dmitri Smirnov, Edwin Roxburgh and Rhian Samuel), he graduated with distinction (Diplom Komponist) in 2010 from the Hochschule für Musik "Carl Maria von Weber" in Dresden, Germany, where he studied composition with Manos Tsangaris and Jörg Herchet and electronic music with Franz Martin Olbrisch and Michael Flade. He has been recently accepted (December 2010) to pursue a PhD on the genealogy of the diptych ‘Sound and Rite’ at the same institution under the supervision of Prof. Dr. Jörn Peter Hiekel.

Tsiartas' works have been performed in Cyprus, Germany and the UK by various ensembles and orchestras such as Camerata Polyzoides, Dresdner Philharmonie‚ Studio for New Music Ensemble Moscow, the duo Movses Pogossian and Rohan de Saram having received their premieres in renowned venues such as the BKA Theater in Berlin, the Kulturpalast in Dresden and the ZKM in Karlsruhe.

He has actively participated in a number of composition master classes, amongst others, with Brian Ferneyhough (Dresden 2007) and Beat Furrer (Rostock 2009). He has also visited the Donaueschinger Musiktage (2007, 2009) and the Internationalen Ferienkurse für Neue Musik in Darmstadt (2010), where he attended the composition classes of Rebecca Saunders, Liza Lim and Georges Aperghis.

As part of the official programme of the same festival, the first part of his scenic work Pareidolia was premiered. From January 2007 he is an extraordinary member of GEMA, Germany. In July 2009 he received the composers’ residency of the ‚Pharos Arts Foundation’ in Nicosia, Cyprus. From March 2009 to September 2010 he was a scholarship holder of the ‘Studienstiftung des Deutschen Volkes’.