Biography
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Jerome Leroy is a Film Composer, Orchestrator, Conductor, and Studio Technician who has been working in the Los Angeles area since September 2005. Majoring in Film Scoring, he graduated Summa Cum Laude with a Bachelor of Music degree from Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA) in May 2005. His original compositions have been selected at various competitions in Paris and Boston, where he also received numerous scholarships and honors. He has written original scores for two independent shorts, orchestrated on four feature films and one TV film, and assisted or worked with such renowned Hollywood composers as William Ross, John Frizzell, and Basil Poledouris.
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Jerome Leroy was born in Paris, France, where he was first introduced to music as a young child playing the piano. He strated serious study and practice at age five and at age fourteen turned to composition.
After having written numerous chamber pieces as a teenager (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 (at age nineteen) for the famous Berklee College of Music in Boston, Massachussetts, for which he was awarded the Berklee Entering Student Scholarship.
At Berklee, Jerome's musical skills brought him much success; in 2002, 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 (for which he received a Certificate of Excellence in Composition) was selected to be performed by the world-class Esterhazy Quartet in Berklee's David Friend Recital Hall.
Fulfilling his musical passion for music directing and conducting, Jerome used his experience to found the first student-run classical orchestra at Berklee, a long process which began in March 2003, and proved to be worthwhile when the orchestra finally produced its first recording in April 2004. At the time, Conductor David Callahan praised Jerome for his "mastery of the conducting techniques [and his] amount of energy and diplomatic skill." In fact, Jerome carefully planned out the orchestra's structure so that it would continue after his graduation; the College Repertory Orchestra is now in its fourth season, and has become an important part of Berklee's community life.
While in Boston, Jerome also joined a community theater company, The Longwood Players. In the Spring of 2004, he was Orchestra Manager and Arranger on the musical Company, and was appointed Conductor in Spring 2005 for the musical La Cage aux Folles.
In May 2005, Jerome graduated Summa Cum Laude from Berklee College of Music with a Film Scoring major. Encouraged by his peers and teachers, he decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue a career in the field. As soon as he arrived on the West Coast, Jerome used his technical knowledge to help successful composers improve their work environment. This lead 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, Jerome started working for famous composer and orchestrator William Ross (Harry Potter & the Chamber of Secrets, Ladder 49...), 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.
Since then, Jerome has orchestrated or co-orchestrated three other film scores; First Born and Primeval were composed by John Frizzell while Feast was composed by Steve Edwards.
Jerome is also the creator of CreateFilmScores.net, an independent weblog which provides daily Film Scoring technical news to its readers. The website, started at the end of October 2006, already passed the 2000 "unique visitors" mark, and had more than 25000 pages viewed in less than six weeks.
"Jerome is immensely talented, sensitive, hard working and very disciplined... This is definitely one person who is going to make a mark in the industry." (George Monseur, Conductor, 2004)
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