about

Victoria R. Romano is an LA-based violinist, composer, and ethnomusicologist. Born and raised in New Jersey, she received a Bachelor of Music in Music Composition at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University, where she also studied viola and completed a minor in Sociocultural Anthropology. She holds an MA in Ethnomusicology and is a PhD candidate in Digital Composition at the University of California, Riverside.

Victoria experiments with multimedia, engaged, and interdisciplinary approaches to ethnography. As a composer-ethnomusicologist, Victoria produces ethnographic compositions and, conversely, creative ethnographies. For instance, in 2021, she scored a feature film set in Dublin, Ireland, When Men Were Men, in collaboration with two non-binary transmasculine filmmakers. She intends for her score and its companion scholarship to elevate visibility and empathy toward trans and non-binary folks as well as the issues that matter to them.

When on the East Coast, she frequents New Music spaces in NYC, where she has premiered compositions at such venues as (le) poisson rouge, Spectrum, Areté Gallery, MIS-EN_PLACE, and trans-pecos. Concurrent with her many collaborative projects, she released two albums, one studio and one live album, under the moniker halcionne.

She remains an active performer and teacher. In addition to performing live, she arranges and records strings for an expansive variety of musical acts. A playlist of her many studio collaborations can be found [here.]