Leo is a passionate musician who has been playing piano for eight years. He attends high school in NJ as a freshman on a Music Scholarship. He has won multiple international piano performance competitions and performed several times at Carnegie’s Weill and Zankel Hall, Merkin Hall, Kaufman Music Center, and various venues in Italy, the UK, and Austria. He was invited to perform in a winner’s recital in Hamburg, Germany and is excited to be expanding his reach into music composition. Leo loves to use his music to make people happy, which he does by writing and performing works for the elderly, his family, teachers, and friends. He also uses music as the platform for uniting people around issues that are important to him. He has hosted benefit concerts to fight antisemitism and will be hosting a 25th reunion 9/11 tribute concert next September.
Watch Leo Cohen performs Transcendental Etude no. 8 in C Minor, “Wilde Jagd” by Franz Liszt for the 2026 International Piano Competition as part of the Charleston International Music Competition.