Levente Egry was born in Hungary in the year of 1969, a time during the winds of change which affected the entire world in her art, music, culture and politics. It was a confused time of dark ages and renaissance swirling together out of control. But young Egry knew not of the politics and economics of Southeast Asian wars, or guarded walls of segregation nor of the decisions the leaders would hesitate to make. He would lie in his bed as a baby, playing with and starring at his little fingers that would someday learn to stretch across the ivory keys to form triads and other inversions. And he would do so with keen eyes that would learn to read the meanings of notes, which had been placed on ancient parchments by the Masters such as Liszt, Brahms and Mozart. He would learn and memorize these grand compositions until he could play them backwards with eyes closed. He would live and love music as it propelled him through his early educational years and into young adulthood. He would hear music of all genres and times and he would wonder what it would be like to create something totally new and fresh by borrowing the colors and the emotions of that which had been before. Levente would learn composition and production and engineering and how to conduct and lead the talents of others. He would travel to many distant places and would star in shows in front of thousands upon thousands of excited fans. He would appear on the same stages as Michael Jackson, N’Sync, Backstreet Boys and countless other well known acts, all the while keeping his own dream in tact of someday creating something in music to blend the romanticism and the emotions which once had existed in music long before VH-1 and MTV, the mp3 downloads or even the CD. Back to a time when music was about making you feel.
Sentimental Piano Concert, Egry’s new release is a milestone of creative genius and inside it we find Levente Egry, a man of dreams, a man of colors from inside his mind and from his heart which cascade his thoughts and emotions across those once tiny baby sized fingertips like the fresh and swift waters of a mountain waterfall., landing perfectly inside your inner ear, the polyphony of the notes flowing into your heart and soul- making you “feel the music “. And that is truly the way it’s supposed to be. Levente takes you there, through his life, into his head and he shares with you all he knows and everything he has ever wanted to be.