Romain Gazave
Romain Gazave is a French ice skater and pianist, born 11 December 1976 in Bourg-Saint-Maurice/Les Arcs (French Alps).
He started skating and playing piano at the age of 6 in Megève. A French National Team Member and student at the INSEP, he won a silver medal at the National France Junior Championship (1994) and took part in many international competitions, winning the bronze medal in the International Grand prize of Slovakia (1995).
Ending his competitive career, Romain decided to study piano in a professional way. He entered the class of Marian Rybicki in ENMP (Ecole Normale de Musique de Paris) and became a private student of Jean Fassina for 4 years.
His interest in entertainment and shows motivated him to begin a professional career in which he decided to combine his two passions: ice skating and piano in the same act, being the only person to do so. From then, he performed around the world in big show productions such as:
- IMG Stars On Ice in 2006 beside Brian Orser, Tatiana Totmianina & Maxim Marinin, Tatiana Navka & Roman Kostomarov, Irina Slutskaya.
- Art On Ice in 2008 beside Kurt Browning, Shizuka Arakawa, Stéphane Lambiel, Sarah Meier, Aliona Savchenko & Robin Szolkowy, Elena Lev, Anatoly Zalievsky, Kim Wilde, Ronan Keating, Gardar Thor Cortes.
- Champions on Ice in 2009 beside Surya Bonaly, Marina Anissina, Oksana Kazakova, Yuliya Obertas & Sergei Slavnov.
- Mama and Mia on Ice, Malaga, 2009 [1]
Gazave also presented many duo numbers and piano accompaniments for ice-skating champions, circus artists (from Cirque du Soleil) and famous singers. He also skated for TV Shows such as Dancing On Ice in Turkey (2006) and in the English Show "Hot Ice" in Blackpool from 2004 to 2008.[2][3][4][5]
He works at times for certain companies as an artistic director and casting advisor.
In June 2010, he decided to realize one of his old dream by entirely producing and releasing his first CD Album, "Personal Thoughts".
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References
External links
- Romain Gazave’s Official Website
- Absolute Skating Article (Archive)
- Stars On Ice (Official Website) Presentation
- Dancing On Ice TV Show
- Hereich Nichols Website (Art On Ice VIP After Party)
- Absolute Skating interview