Romain Camiolo

Romain’s artistic life is devoted to composing film, dance and concert music, as well as to pedagogy. His musical universe revolves around instrumental and vocal music, while making space for experiments with synthesized sound.

He began his education at the Conservatoire Jean Wiéner, where he studied classical piano, jazz and orchestral conducting. After deciding to specialize in composition, he entered the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Lyon in 2013, studying composition for image under Gilles Alonzo. During the same period, he worked with the Institut Lumière and Lumière Film Festival, providing piano accompaniment for silent films from Buster Keaton to Abel Gance, Alfred Hitchcock and Raoul Walsh.

After completing a master’s degree in 2018, he completed his doctorate from 2019 to 2025 at the Université de Montréal under the joint supervision of composer Ana Sokolović and filmmaker Serge Cardinal. His research-creation work focuses on composition for “cinés-concerts” and on what makes these film concerts a standalone genre within today’s concert landscape. During his doctoral studies, he scored two films by director Miryam Charles: the short film Chanson pour le Nouveau Monde and the feature Cette Maison, which was presented at the 2022 Berlinale. His ensemble collaborations during this time included a commission from Ensemble Paramirabo entitled Résistance-Résilience, which premiered in Montréal in May 2022, and a 2023 piece entitled À la dérive dans la noosphère for reed quintet 5ilience.

Romain seeks out collaborations to enrich his creative practice. Since 2022, he has been working with dancer-choreographers Georges-Nicolas Tremblay and Simon Renaud on the dance musical Fé.e.s sans foi, which was programmed at La Chapelle Scènes Contemporaines in January 2024. He and Georges-Nicolas began work on a new project for young audiences in fall 2024. That same year, he joined Simon Renaud as artistic and executive co-director of AMOUR AMOUR, a company devoted to producing new works for music and dance. Romain composed the music for AMOUR AMOUR’s interdisciplinary production Les Veilleuses, which premiered at Bourgie Hall in September 2025.