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

Victoria experiments with multimedia, engaged, and interdisciplinary approaches to ethnography. She expresses her ideas through long-form storytelling mediums, namely film (When Men Were Men, “Skid Row is a Place: Cultural Placemaking as Political Praxis,” “The Naming of the Things”) and music theater (Connecting Dot: A Kindred Revue, Cohen Family Shiva: A (Misanthr)opera, The ATLA Musical).

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.

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