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Romain Louveau is a pianist and vocal coach. Since 2016, he has served as Artistic Director of the company Miroirs Étendus, alongside Fiona Monbet and Othman Louati, in residence at the Opéra de Rouen-Normandie, the Orchestre National de Lille, and the Atelier Lyrique de Tourcoing. He is also co-founder of the festival La Brèche in Savoie.
His discography includes the complete vocal works of Rita Strohl with Elsa Dreisig and Stéphane Degout (awarded Choc Classica, FFFF Télérama, 5 Diapasons, BBC Music Awards). In 2024, he recorded Schubert’s Winterreise with Victoire Bunel and Jean-Christophe Lanièce. The first album of Miroirs Étendus, released in 2021, combined a piano piece by Othman Louati and Debussy’s Chansons de Bilitis with Marie-Laure Garnier (Revelation at the Victoires de la Musique 2021), and was also praised by critics (4 Diapasons).
A laureate of the Orsay-Royaumont Academy in 2018, he won the chamber music prize with piano at the ISA of the University of Music in Vienna in 2016, together with Fiona Monbet. Trained with Hervé Billaut at the CRR of Lyon, he studied Lied and French Mélodie with Jeff Cohen at the CNSMDP in Paris.
He collaborates with leading opera singers such as Elsa Dreisig, Stéphane Degout, Marianne Croux, Adèle Charvet, and Eva Zaïcik. He has appeared in recital at prestigious venues across Europe (Wigmore Hall in London, La Monnaie in Brussels, the Lied Festival Victoria in Barcelona), and in France at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées, the Auditorium of the Musée d’Orsay, the Maison de la Radio, MC2 Grenoble, the Opéra de Lille, the Opéra de Rouen, and the Théâtre Impérial de Compiègne. He has also worked with the Quatuor Agate, pianists Susan Manoff and Jean-Sébastien Dureau, cellists Michèle Pierre, Valérie Aimard, and Marie Bitloch, violinist Hélène Maréchaux, clarinetist Bertrand Laude, and flutist Mathilde Caldérini.
Holding degrees in philosophy from the University Paris VIII and in musicology from the CNSMD of Paris, he frequently partners with artists from a wide range of disciplines: dancer François Chaignaud, stage director Tiphaine Raffier, Irish composer Michael Gallen, video artist Jacques Perconte, painter Silvère Jarosson, the theater company L’Éventuel Hérisson Bleu, and the theater class of Emmanuelle Cordoliani at the CNSMD of Paris. Together with Marie Soubestre, he is engaged in a research and recording project devoted to Hanns Eisler’s settings of Bertolt Brecht’s poetry.
with François Chaignaud, Elsa Dreisig, Fiona Monbet, Othman Louati, Victoire Bunel, Jean-Christophe Lanièce, Antoine Thiollier, Michèle Pierre