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Oren Levine plays piano and writes songs

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 and study music while focusing on earning two engineering degrees and building a career in engineering, software, and technology management. He wrote his first song at age 45 in a summer jazz workshop in Vermont and joined ASCAP soon after in 2009.

Oren devoted more time to writing and performing after moving back to Washington, DC in 2010, while still working in technology management full-time. He improved his skills as a songwriter through an online course from Berklee professor Pat Pattison, adding that knowledge to his understanding of the musical language of jazz and the American Songbook. Oren released an album of eleven 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 left the technology world to pursue music full-time in early 2020 and continues to write songs and play jazz at venues in the DC area and on St. Croix in the US Virgin Islands. His performances deliver positive, relaxed, swinging music rooted in the jazz tradition and almost always include some of his original songs.

Oren has recorded and released more music since his album, including several jazz singles and three singles as “Groove Park,” an ongoing series of collaborative projects that combine his jazz roots with other styles and vibes. Oren’s songs have also been recorded by Aaron Myers, Carolyn Malachi, Lionel Lyles, Donna Singer, and the DC-based funk/hip-hop band The Lucky So & Sos.