Jérôme Leroy (composer)

Jérôme Leroy is a French composer and orchestrator based in Los Angeles. Early life and family Born in Paris, Leroy was first introduced to music as a young child playing the piano. He started serious study and practice at the age of five and at the age of fourteen he turned to composition. Leroy attended high school at Lycée Claude Monet, where he studied under composer Annick Chartreux and performed in numerous concerts as a pianist and singer. 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, for which he was awarded a scholarship. Berklee College of Music At Berklee, where Leroy studied Film Scoring, he founded the school’s first student-run classical orchestra, which produced its first recording in April 2004 and a string of concerts in the following years. 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