Levente Egry, is a Hungarian performing artist, working as a composer, producer, performer and pianist.
Education
1991-1993 Ferenc (Franz) Liszt Music Academy – Budapest – piano
1987-1991 Ferenc Liszt Music Academy/Jazz Faculty – Budapest – piano, professor: Bela Szakcsi-Lakatos, Karoly Binder, Janos Gonda
1983-1987 Béla Bartók High School of Music – Budapest – piano
1976-1983 National Secondary School of Music – Budapest – piano.
Career
Being the holder of the last Hungarian Diamond Record (the category is no longer in use) for over 100,000 records sold in Hungary he recently started a classical-crossover project: Sentimental Piano Concert. His life is full of contrasting success —after having a great early career in classical music, critical acclaim as a jazz and popular artist now he is now pursuing a career as a classical composer and pianist. 1991-1993 Ferenc (Franz) Liszt Music Academy – Budapest – piano Levente Egry was born on 21 August 1969 in Budapest, Hungary.
He is a concert pianist, composer, producer.
He played the piano in Madách Theatre (Budapest) from 1990 to 1993 and at the same time he worked at the Hungarian National Theatre as a pianist. In 1992 he entered the Hungarian National Song Festival"s Top 10 with a composition for big band and symphony orchestra.
From 1994 he took a break from classical piano and he founded the popular boy band Hip Hop Boyz. From 1993 he was the lyricist, composer, singer, and producer of the national number one and multiple award winning boy-band Hip Hop Boyz and performed at significant festivals (MIDEM, Total Dance, Bravo Festival) and was the opening act for Doctor Alban, East 17, Backstreet Boys, "North Sync, DJ BoBo, Number Mercy, Michael Jackson and other Hungarian bands and artists.
Their records were released across Europe: Germany, the Netherlands, Spain, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czechoslovakian Republic.
In 1999 he released his first solo album. After hosting of the classical concert series for the Hungarian Radio Symphony Orchestra in 2000 he moved to the United States. and worked as a freelance producer and songwriter for Celine Dion, Anastacia and Tarkan. In 2003, once againback in Hungary, Egry produced several popular projects winning several awards and critical acclaim.
In 2005 he co-founded Artofonic Records and worked as a producer, A&R manager.
From 2005 he participated "Hip Hop Boyz Retroshow" with over 200 performances around Hungary and the surrounding countries. In 2006 he started working on Sentimental Piano Concert - his debut album as a neo-romantic solo classical-crossover pianist and composer.
He co-founded the Artofonic Chamber Orchestra in 2006.