The pianist Tamás Kéry graduated in 2003 from the Franz Liszt University of Music in Budapest, where he studied under István Lantos, András Kemenes, Balázs Szokolay and Márta Gulyás. This was followed by postgraduate studies at the conservatoires in Weimar and Munich in the masterclasses of Rolf-Dieter Arens and Vadim Suchanov (piano) and Thomas Steinhöfel, Donald Sulzen, Siegfried Mauser and Rudi Spring (art song accompaniment). Under the latter, he completed his masterclass as an art song accompanist at the Munich Conservatoire in 2009.

He has won prizes at numerous national and international piano and chamber music competitions and has received several awards as a performer of contemporary music.

Following his teaching posts at the Béla Bartók Music High School in Budapest (wind instrument coaching), the music academies in Munich and Nuremberg (vocal coaching) and a scholarship at the Opera Studio of the Nuremberg State Theatre, he has been working as a coach at the Franz Liszt University of Music in Budapest since 2012 and, since 2022, as a teacher of piano as a principal subject at the László Hermann Music High School in Székesfehérvár.

As a soloist, he has performed with the symphony orchestras of Debrecen, Szeged, Szombathely and Asunción (Paraguay), as well as with Collegium Noricum (Nuremberg), the Musica Vitae Chamber Orchestra (Växjö, Sweden), Camerata Miranda (Asunción, Paraguay) and the Quartetto Dalí (Barcelona), and has given numerous solo recitals and festival performances.

As a chamber musician, his most significant achievements include performances of all the sonatas for violin and piano by Johannes Brahms, with the violinist Ulla Benz, in Michelstadt, Budapest, Asunción and Buenos Aires, as well as all the sonatas for violin and piano by Robert Schumann and Johann Sebastian Bach, in a series of concerts across Hungary with Katalin Farkas. With his piano trio, Trio Concertante Budapest (featuring Katalin Farkas on violin and Anna Scholz on cello), their first CD was released in 2026 by Hungaroton, featuring works by Zoltán Gárdonyi and László Lajtha.

He has organised a large number of recitals with, amongst others, Anna Lapkovskaja, Miki Isochi, Eric Fergusson, Franz Schlecht, Ingrid Kertesi, Eszter Zemlényi, Angelika Czabán, Jolana Slavikova and Laura Garics in Hungary, Germany, France, Slovakia and Turkey. As a Live Music Now scholarship holder, he also performed for many years in the Munich region with Elvira Hasanagic, Martin Danes, Andreas Burkhart (vocals), Noémi Győri (flute) and Hans Christian Dellinger (Christian Elin, saxophone).

Since 2022, he has been an accompanist at the Éva Marton International Singing Competition and, since 2023, at the Tokaj Summer Academies organised by the Crecsendo Institute.