| Jérôme Leroy | |
|---|---|
| Background information | |
| Born | September 2, 1981 Paris, France |
| Genres | Classical, film music |
| Occupations | Composer, conductor, orchestrator |
| Years active | 1995-present |
Jérôme Leroy (born on September 2, 1981) is a film composer, orchestrator and conductor currently living in Los Angeles, California, U.S..
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Jérôme Leroy was born on September 2, 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 Lycée Claude Monet in 1999), he applied in 2001 for the Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachusetts, for which he was awarded the Berklee Entering Student Scholarship.
At Berklee, his Invention in G was selected by the Berklee Composition Faculty to be premiered by pianist Marti Epstein, and, in 2004, his string quartet Triage was selected to be performed by the world-class Esterhazy Quartet at Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall.
Leroy used his experience as orchestra manager to found the first student-run classical orchestra[1] 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 of Stephen Sondheim's Company, and was appointed conductor in Spring 2005 on their production of La Cage aux Folles.[2]
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 the West Coast of the United States, he started working as a technician for various composers. This led him to meet John 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 by Alan 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 in Ubeda, 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.[3]
Since then, Leroy focused his work on movie music orchestration with First Born in 2006, Primeval and The Reaping, composed by John Frizzell, and Feast and Finding Rintintin composed by Steve Edwards in 2007. The same year Leroy orchestrated the movie music Say It in Russian composed by Pinar Toprak.
In 2007 Jérôme Leroy worked as orchestrator and assistant to music director William Ross for the 79th Academy Awards.