Lefteris Kordis is a Greek-born pianist and composer. Just out of the Music Gymnasium and High School of Pallini in Athens, he performed with composer Mikis Theodorakis on piano and trumpet. While at the Ionian University in Corfu, Lefteris focused on both the trumpet and piano, and began to play jazz in addition to the classical repertoire he had studied since the age of four.

Lefteris came to the U.S. as a Fulbright, Onassis, and Gerondelis scholar and earned his Master's degree with honors at New England Conservatory in 2004. Currently, he is a doctoral candidate at New England Conservatory, supported by the Ruth Shapiro Memorial Scholarship, and has studied with Danilo Perez, Bob Brookmeyer, Jerry Bergonzi, Frank Carlberg, Michael Gandolfi, and Joe Morris, among others. Lefteris is currently studying with Charlie Banacos

Lefteris has performed with Steve Lacy, Sheila Jordan, Joe Lovano, Joe Hunt, Takis Paterelis, Robert Sadin, and Vasilis Saleas, among others in venues such as the Half Note Jazz Club in Athens, Cornelia Street Cafe in NYC, Jututuba Jazz Club and Umo Jazz club in Finland, Boston Symphony Café at the Boston Symphony Hall, Jordan Hall in Boston, Harvard University, Megaron Mousikis in Athens, Overture Center for the Arts in Madison, WI, at Virginia Commonwealth University, and in numerous Festivals in Greece as well as in the New England area.

As a teaching fellow at the New England Conservatory, he has been teaching piano, jazz ear training, music theory, and has developed a curriculum for an undergraduate Jazz music history course entitled: "The Post Bebop Era, 1949-1961."