Gergely Bogányi
was born in Vác, Hungary, and began playing the piano at the age of four. He was awarded his first music prize at the age of six, and three years later, at nine, he won first prize at the National Piano Competition in Nyíregyháza, Hungary.

He studied at the Sibelius Academy in Finland, at the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and at the University Academy of Music in Bloomington, USA. Among his most important teachers were Zsuzsa Esztó, László Baranyai, Matti Raekallio and György Sebök. He attended master classes with Dmitry Bashkirov, András Schiff, Annie Fischer, Murray Perahia and Ferenc Rados.

The artist has been awarded prizes at numerous international piano competitions, such as the International Piano Competition in the former Czechoslovakia, the International Piano Competition in Epinal, France, the International Piano Competition in Ettlingen, Germany and the "Helmi-Vesa Piano Competition" of the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki. Bogányi has won First Prizes at the Chopin Piano Competition of the Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, the Mozart Piano Competition in Hungary and the International Piano Competition in Indianapolis, USA. He also won First Prize at the International Liszt Competition in Budapest in autumn 1996.

As a soloist he performs regularly in Belgium, Germany, Austria, France, Spain, Sweden, Finland, Latvia, Estonia and in Italy. Many of his concerts have been recorded by radio and television stations. In Hungary he has performed with all the major orchestras, in Finland with the Helsinki Philharmonic Orchestra and the Helsinki Radio Symphony Orchestra and in Holland with the Netherlands Philharmonic Orchestra.

Gergely Bogányi has recorded several CDs. In recent years he has recorded all of Franz Liszt's sonatas for piano and violin with the Hungarian violinist Barnabás Kelemen and produced several recordings of works by Frédéric Chopin (including the Mazurkas and the 12 Etudes, op. 25), Franz Liszt and Sergei Rachmaninoff.