Kurt Leege is an established New York City composer, engineer, performer and producer. He learned to read music at the same time he learned to read. While growing up, Kurt was a classically trained pianist. During his teens, out of frustration with his inability to write at the keyboard, he picked up guitar and began writing original material.

Kurt received his BA in Philosophy, English Literature and Religion from Swarthmore College in 1994. He also spent quite a bit of time learning to play jazz and served as a live engineer for the wide variety of national acts performing at the college. It was at this point that he also had his first experiences recording and engineering in studios in Philadelpia and Martha's Vinyard. After moving to New York to pursue a PhD in Philosophy at the Graduate Faculty of the New School University, he began a career as a composer and performing musician. Since then, he has performed with numerous acts in multiple genres at virtually every small venue in the city, including The Knitting Factory, Tonic, The Mercury Lounge, The Limelight and all the usual suspects.

In 1996, he began building a home studio and started focusing on film composing, studio engineering, and producing. While a member of the music collective M'lumbo, he co-composed, performed, and engineered several station ID spots for MTV and co-composed and performed the music for the feature film System Noise, as well as doing the audio-post. Since striking out on his own, he has composed, performed and engineered music for numerous Off-Broadway plays, including Steven Berkoff's One Man, which ran at the Culture Project, had a composition appear in the hit TV show Angel, done scoring for the upcoming PBS series Travelarama, and produced and recorded numerous projects by local musicians. He also has producer, performer, composer, and engineering credits on several albums that have gotten glowing reviews by independent press.

In April 2003, Kurt took out a small business loan and [together with partner Paul Pouthier & friend Erik Klein] built a stunning small recording studio in South Williamsburg. The goal was to create a space acoustically competitive with the big boys, but tailored to the little guy. The result is Lucid Production - a place where independent musicians can come to receive top-tier audio services for reasonable prices.

Kurt is comfortable engineering, composing and performing in a wide variety of styles, including blues, classical, electronica, folk, funk, hip hop, jazz, pop, r&b, rock, and world music.