- Jérôme Leroy (composer)
Infobox musical artist
Name = Jérôme Leroy
Landscape = Yes
Background = classical_ensemble
Born = birth date and age|1981|09|02Paris ,France
Genre = Classical,film music
Occupation =Composer , conductor,orchestrator
Years_active = 1995-"present"
Associated_acts =
URL =Jérôme Leroy (born on September 2, 1981) is a film composer, orchestrator and conductor currently living in
Los Angeles ,California , U.S..Early life and family
Jérôme Leroy was born on September 2nd, 1981, in
Paris ,France . He was first introduced to music as a young child playing the piano. He started serious study and practice at age five and at age fourteen turned to composition.Leroy attended high school at Lycée
Claude Monet in Paris, where he took traditional music history classes with Annick Chartreux, a French conductor and composer, and performed in numerous concerts as a pianist and singer. The growth of the Internet in these years pushed him to keep in touch with new technologies, giving him useful technical skills early on.After having written various chamber pieces in his teens (his "minimalist duology, 2017", was premiered at the Conservatoire Municipal de Paris
Maurice Ravel and at LycéeClaude Monet in 1999), he applied in 2001 for theBerklee College of Music inBoston ,Massachusetts , for which he was awarded the "Berklee Entering Student Scholarship".Berklee College of Music
At
Berklee , his "Invention in G" was selected by the Berklee Composition Faculty to be premiered by pianistMarti Epstein , and, in 2004, his string quartet "Triage" was selected to be performed by the world-classEsterhazy Quartet at Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall.Leroy used his experience as orchestra manager to found the first student-run classical orchestra [cite web | title=Creation of the College Repertory Orchestra at Berklee College of Music| url=http://www.croboston.org/aboutcro/briefhistory.html| accessdate=April 02| accessyear=2007] at Berklee, which produced its first recording in April 2004. In fact, Leroy carefully planned out the orchestra's structure so that it would continue after his graduation.
While in Boston, he also joined a community theater company,
The Longwood Players . In the Spring of 2004, he was Orchestra Manager and Arranger on their production ofStephen Sondheim 's "Company", and was appointed conductor in Spring 2005 on their production of "La Cage aux Folles" [cite web | title=Theatermirror.com: Reviews of Current Productions| url=http://www.theatermirror.com/CRlacagelongwood.htm| accessdate=April 21| accessyear=2007] .Hollywood
In May 2005, Jérôme Leroy graduated from Berklee College of Music. Encouraged by his peers and teachers, he decided to move to
Los Angeles to pursue a career in the field. Once on theWest Coast of the United States , he started working as a technician for various composers. This lead him to meetJohn Frizzell , who eventually gave him his first orchestration opportunity on a TV film (A Little Thing Called Murder ), and a few weeks later on a feature film (Stay Alive ).In April 2006, Leroy started working for composer and orchestrator William Ross, (Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets,
Ladder 49 , Tuck Everlasting), and did music preparation on a score composed byAlan Silvestri . Around the same period, he also re-orchestrated a suite from Conan The Barbarian (Basil Poledouris ), to be performed under the composer's direction in July 2006, at the second International Film Music Conference inUbeda ,Spain .Leroy attended Summer conducting courses at UCLA Extension in 2006, where he studied with
Eimar Noone . He is also the creator of CreateFilmScores.net, an independent weblog which provides daily Film Scoring technical news to its readers, started in October 2006 [cite web | title=Announce of the creation of CreateFilmScores.net on Createdigitalmusics.com| url=http://createdigitalmusic.com/tag/scoring/| accessdate=April 21| accessyear=2007] .Since then, Leroy focused his work on movie music orchestration with
First Born in 2006, Primeval andThe Reaping , composed by John Frizzell, and Feast and Finding Rintintin composed bySteve Edwards in 2007. The same year Leroy orchestrated the movie music Say It in Russian composed byPinar Toprak .79th Academy Awards
In 2007 Jérôme Leroy worked as orchestrator and assistant to music director William Ross for the
79th Academy Awards .Notable works
Film Music Orchestrations
*Conan The Barbarian (Suite for Orchestra, partial re-orchestration, 2006)
*A Little Thing Called Murder (2006)
*Stay Alive (2006)
*First Born (2006)
*Feast (2006)
*Primeval (2007)
*Finding Rintintin (2007)
*The Reaping (2007)
*Say It in Russian (2007)
*Our Lady of Victory (post-production) (2008)
*Order of Redemption (post-production) (2008)hort Films
*Mille balles à gratter (directed by Matthieu Santelli, France, 2004)
*Heures Sup (directed by Matthieu Santelli, France, 2006)Notes
References
*cite web | title=Jérôme Leroy Biography on the official website| url=http://www.jeromeleroy.com/biography.php | accessdate=September 05|accessyear=2005
*cite web | title=Leroy Biography on the Hollywood.com| url=http://www.hollywood.com/celebrity/Jerome_Leroy/3487990 | accessdate=April 21|accessyear=2007
*cite web | title=Biography on Yahoo!Movies| url=http://movies.yahoo.com/movie/contributor/1809692667 | accessdate=April 21|accessyear=2007
*imdb name|id=2108688|name=Jérôme LeroyExternal links
* [http://www.jeromeleroy.com Jeromeleroy.com]
* [http://www.createfilmscores.net CreateFilmScores.net]
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