József Ormény was born in 1960 in Uzhhorod. After graduating from the Mykola Lysenko Lviv State Conservatory, he continued his studies at the Tchaikovsky State Conservatory in Moscow under the guidance of Professor Yevgeny Malinin. He is currently head of the piano department at the Mykola Lysenko Lviv National Conservatory.

He is an Artist of Merit in Ukraine, and he has been awarded the Revutsky and Lyatoshinsky State Prizes, the ‘Fryderyk’ Prize (Poland, 1997) and the Polish Prize for Culture in 2014.

He is active in promoting twentieth-century and contemporary music and has performed in Ukraine, Poland, Germany, France, Belgium, Switzerland, Canada, Azerbaijan, Moldova and Russia.

József Ormény has performed in venues such as St. Laurens Hall and Chapelle historique du Bon-Pasteur (Canada), the concert halls of the Philharmonie Cologne, the Philharmonie Kiel, the Staatstheater Cottbus (Germany), Teatru Manoel (Malta), the Philharmonic concert halls of Warsaw, Lublin and Krakow (Poland), and the Philharmonic halls of Lviv and Kiev. He is a regular guest at prestigious festivals.

He has collaborated with conductors such as Volodymyr Sirenko, Mykola Diadiura, Roman Rewakowicz, Tadeusz Wojciechowski, Wojciech Michniewski, Zygmunt Rychert, Mirosław Błaszczak, Jan Krenz, Stanisław Skrowaczewski, Saulius Sondeckis, Yuriy Simonov, and Brian Schembri. He has also collaborated with musicians and ensembles such as Albetro Lysy, Orest Shurhot, Olha Pasichnyk, Valeriy Buymister, Kwartet Śląski, and the DAFO Quartet.