about

Victoria R. Romano is a 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 minored in Sociocultural Anthropology. She completed her PhD in Digital Composition at the University of California, Riverside, where she also obtained a Master’s in Ethnomusicology.

Victoria experiments with creative, multimedia, interdisciplinary, and engaged ethnographic approaches. She expresses her ideas through storytelling mediums such as film and musical theatre. Her innovative methodology comes through in her various projects, including the film score to When Men Were Men and the cabaret musical Connecting Dot: A Kindred Revue, about her Jewish ancestry.

Victoria remains an active performer and pedagogue. She is an Assistant Professor of Music at the University of La Verne, Assistant at the Hacienda Heights String Orchestra, and in addition to her live music engagements, she arranges and records orchestral strings for an expansive array of musical acts. A playlist of her many studio collaborations can be found [here.]