For 25 years, from 1981 until 2006, Mrs. Tereza Kokkalaki, member of the Board of Directors of the Cultural Centre “Megaro Gyzi”, had the artistic management of the cultural events.

Amongst all those events, we must single out the Painting Exhibitions by renowned Greek artists, with Santorini as theme, like Paris Prekas, Opi Zouni, Panagiotis Gravvalos, Anna Mendrinou, Meropi Preka, Kostas Plakotaris, Petros Zouboulakis, Markos Venios, Dimitris Darzentas, Christoforos Asimis, Sofia Kalogeropoulou, Themis Kontogouris, Alexandros Mavroidis and so on.

One must also notice the musical evenings featuring Concerts by well-known Greek and international artists. Some of those important artists, who have appeared all these years in "Megaro Gyzi", are the famous Bulgarian pianist Jenny Zacharieva (one of the best pianists worldwide), the also Bulgarian Nina Maleeva (harp) and Darina Maleeva (violin), the famous artist from Korea Yang Woo Suk (flute), the Bulgarian Svilen Simeonov (clarinet), the Belarussian Aggelina Tkacheva (cymbel), the Russian pianists Alexei Miroshnikov and Natalia Miroshnikova, the Russian Christophor Miroshnikov (cello), the Russian pianist Tatiana Mitchko, the Greek bass singer Hristoforos Staboglis, the soprano Anna Alexopoulou, the mezzo-soprano Irini Karayanni, the Greek singers Melina Botelli, Nena Venetsanou and Melina Tanagri, Ross Daly with his group, Nelli Semitekolo (piano), Dimitris Semsis (violin), Stella Gadeli (flute), Dora Satolia (piano), Vagelis Boutounis (guitar), Yannis Zouganelis (tuba), Manos Avarakis (harmonica and recorders), the Early Music Kelsos Ensemble, Thodoros Kerkezos (saxophone) and many others.

Furthermore, the theatrical group "Erasitehniki Skini Athinon", founded and managed for 70 years (1930-2000) by the unforgettable Santorinian artist Yannis Alexakis (1909-2000), gives Theatrical Performances in "Megaro Gyzi" almost every year around October 28th, presenting plays of the greek and classical repertoire with enormous success and many spectators from the local residents of the island.

From September 2006 the artistic management of the cultural events has been taken over by Mr. Yannis Papaconstantinou, an art-lover collector and new member of the Board of Directors of the Cultural Centre "Megaro Gyzi". He intends not only to continue this cultural contribution, but also to expand the already high qualitative standards by giving a new boost in the events of the Festival and the general Cultural Centre΄s philosophy.