Roman Kariolou
Roman Kariolou, born in 1983, is a Cypriot pianist and composer for television and film. Since 2007 he has written music for more than fifty TV films, series and documentaries, mainly for TV and documentary projects. He has created music for major broadcasters such as BBC, CBS, ZDF, ORF, Discovery Channel, Arte and RAI, and he has written official songs for sports events, including the 2006 Winter Olympics in Turin and the EHF Champions League.
He began violin lessons at age three and, at five, was invited to the Yehudi Menuhin School by Menuhin himself. A child prodigy, he performed in Vienna, London, Prague and Athens. With a Zakhar Bron grant he studied one year at Musikhochschule Lübeck, then in 1991 moved to the University of Music and Dramatic Arts Vienna, where he studied with Jewgenia Tschugajewa. He later studied at the Mozarteum and with Tibor Varga at the Musikhochschule Graz. In 2004 he took a film-music course at the Film Music Institute in Los Angeles.
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