Imre Lachegyi started his music studies at the age of four, in the Bartók Béla School of Music in Vác, then in the Secondary School of Music in Szombathely, playing brass instruments. From 1986 he studied theory of music at the Liszt Ferenc College of Music in Debrecen, then at the ELTE Teacher Training College. He graduated in 1991 as a choirmaster and teacher of music. He started to play the recorder in 1986; his teachers were György Róbert and László Czidra. He got his second degree in 2002 as early music — recorder teacher and chamber musician at the Conservatory of the University of Szeged. There he was taught by László Lőrincz. He founded his own early music ensemble in the ‘90s; with whom he gave a lot of concerts and released two CDs. He is director of Sonora Hungarica Consort. He has recently founded his own ensemble, the Sebastian Consort. They play mostly early music, but they also perform Romantic, 20th century and contemporary pieces. Lately he has started dealing with folk and improvisative music. He has arranged a lot of pieces for the recorder, also for a recorder consort. He often plays his own pieces too. He has released five albums yet.