One could make the mistake of taking Levent’s last name literally. The 18-year-old newcomer from Munich has never held a violin in his hand but drumsticks he did. The first time when he was just five years old. When he was eight, he sat at the piano for the first time. At the age of ten he learned how to play the saxophone and at twelve he took up the guitar, and has always been singing. “There are old video recordings of me where I was singing and dancing in a diaper as a one-year-old,” recalls Levent. “So somehow it has always been clear that I really enjoy music.”

Levent Geiger was born in Munich in 2003. He spent his childhood not only there, but also in Chicago and São Paulo. As the son of a Turkish mother and a German father, he soon speaks five languages, but the most important thing is and remains music. At the age of 9 Levent took part in the “Jugend musiziert” competition for the first time and won several times there. Together with Ilia Antoniadis he also founded a pianoduo that not only records a joint classical album, but soon becomes famous far beyond the borders of Germany and is even touring China. Levent is named one of the best young pianists in Germany at the Steinway Festival in Hamburg and plays the opening actfor Lang Lang.