Tzvi Erez was born in Israel and began his piano studies at the age of six. He moved to Canada and studied at The Royal Conservatory of Music (of the University of Toronto), where he trained with Mildred Kenton, Andrew Burashko, and Antonin Kubalek.
While completing his classical piano music education, Tzvi Erez produced and collaborated with many artists and record labels, releasing successful music in multiple genres. After many years in production and distribution by Sony Music, pianist Tzvi Erez recorded and released his Beethoven Piano Works (2000) and Tzvi Erez plays Chopin (2003) under the Niv Classical record label.
In the movie 'A Real Pain' (Searchlight Pictures), featuring Jesse Eisenberg and Kieran Culkin, Erez performed the entire soundtrack featuring the music of Chopin. The movie won an Academy Award (Oscar) in 2025 for Best Supporting Actor - Kieran Culkin.
Erez has released over 50 albums worldwide, including Bach’s Piano Concertos, the Well-Tempered Clavier Books 1 & 2, Partitas, Goldberg Variations, Inventions & Sinfonias; Beethoven’s Piano Works, Sonatas, Piano Concertos; Chopin’s Complete Nocturnes, Waltzes, Ballades, Etudes, Preludes, Piano Concertos; Debussy; Liszts; Erik Satie; Mussorgsky’s Pictures at an Exhibition; Mozart’s Piano Sonatas & Concertos, Rachmaninoff's Concertos, Grieg Piano Concerto, the Robert Schumann Piano Concerto, the Tchaikovsky Piano Concerto, the Medelssohn Piano Concerto, Saint-Saëns Piano Concerto No. 2, and others.
