Jenő Lisztes was born in Budapest in 1986 and is the grandson of a famous cimbalom player. He was only four (!) when he started studying the cimbalom with Agnes Szakaly (classical). He then studied classical and gipsy music with Jeno Soros. Only twelve, he won the Racz Aladar Cimbalom Competition. Since 2005 he is studying at the Liszt Frenc Music Academy in Budapest.