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Oren Levine

Jazz pianist and songwriter

About Me

Oren Levine grew up with a love of music, especially jazz, inherited from his father. He started piano lessons as an eight-year-old in Washington, DC, and continued to play while earning two engineering degrees and building a career as an engineer and technology manager. He wrote his first song at age 45 in a summer jazz workshop in Vermont and joined ASCAP soon after in 2009. Oren released his first album of original songs, “Making Up For Lost Time,” in 2018. His song “Let’s Wander” from the album won him the 2023 ASCAP Foundation Alan and Marilyn Bergman Lyric Award. The title track won a Finalist award in the 2019 Mid-Atlantic Song Contest. Oren continues to write songs and play jazz on the island of St Croix and at venues around the US and elsewhere. His performances deliver positive, relaxed, swinging music rooted in the jazz tradition, and always include some of his songs. Oren’s songs have been performed and recorded by Aaron Myers, Carolyn Malachi, Lionel Lyles, Tony Gudell, Barbara Papendorp, Donna Singer, and the DC-based funk/hip-hop band The Lucky So & Sos.