Lorenzo Romano

Composer

Lorenzo Romano (Firenze, 1985) is an Italian composer based in Hamburg.

 After obtaining a bachelor in contemporary history and a diploma in music composition in Florence, he studied instrumental and electronic composition at the Universität der Musik und darstellende Kunst Graz with Beat Furrer and Marko Ciciliani.  

The encounters with composers such as Salvatore Sciarrino, Helmut Lachenmann, Pierluigi Billone, Brian Ferneyhough, Francesco Filidei, Dmitriy Kurlandskiy, Stefano Gervasoni had a big impact for defining his personal musical style.  

His compositions have been supported by institutions such as Ernst von Siemens Musik Stiftung, Bundeskanzleramt Österreich, the European program “Youth in Action” and they have been awarded in international competitions such as Premio Valentino Bucchi, Concorso Internazionale Franco Evangelisti. His works have been performed in international festivals in France (Royaumont), Germany (Darmstadt Ferienkurse), Austria (Oper Graz, impuls, Klangspuren, Wien Modern), Italy (Biennale di Venezia, Nuova Consonanza), Estonia, Croatia by performers such as Neue Vocalsolisten, Ensemble Recherche, Quartetto Prometeo, Schallfeld Ensemble, Donatienne Michel-Dansac and Antonio Politano. His music has been broadcast on national radios such as Radio3 (Italy), SRF2 (Switzerland) SWR,  (Germany), ORF (Austria).

The concepts of transcription and elaboration connected with new technologies are at the core of his music.  He works regularly with dancers and choreographers and in 2013 he is among the founder members of Schallfeld Ensemble, new music group based in Graz, Austria.

In 2018 he received the Kompositions- und Promotionsstipendium of Claussen Simon Stiftung in cooperation with the Hamburg State Opera and the Institut für kulturelle Innovationsforschung der Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg. His opera La Luna will be premiered in June 2022 at the Hamburg State Opera.