Current amplified music

Romain Jussiaume

Romain Jussiaume, pianist and keyboardist, is also an arranger and Professor of Territorial Artistic Education (PTEA). He coordinates and teaches contemporary amplified music at the isdaT, coordinates contemporary music and jazz at the Carcassonne Agglo Conservatory, and serves as an educational advisor for the Réseau Occitanie Méditerranée. He holds a State Diploma in Jazz Teaching and a CAPES in Musicology.

Born in 1976, he began playing the piano at the age of seven. His musical studies took him to the Marcel Landowski Conservatory in Troyes and then to the Regional Conservatory in Reims, where he obtained a Diploma in Musical Studies in jazz, a Certificate in Musical Studies in classical piano and a Brevet in Musical Studies in accompaniment. He then joined the isdaT, where he obtained a State Diploma in jazz teaching. At the same time, after completing a bachelor’s degree in musicology, he passed the CAPES competitive examination.

His career has been marked by decisive musical encounters: trained notably by Ludovic De Preissac, he developed a piano style rooted in the jazz tradition while cultivating an openness to modern and personal arrangements. In Toulouse, he continued his apprenticeship with Jean-Pierre Peyrebelle and enriched his practice during internships and master classes at the Collège de Marciac with musicians such as Jacky Terrasson, Franck Avitabile, Manuel Rocheman, Jean-Christophe Chollet and Tigran Hamasyan.

An eclectic musician, Romain Jussiaume performs in various groups: jazz (4 TÊTES), jazz-funk (Ewondo), pop-electro (Güzu) and variety (tributes, orchestras). He also helps organise the L’Épopée hip-hop festival (2016, 2017, 2019) in Carcassonne and accompanies singer Michèle Hendricks during a vocal workshop. In concert, he shares the stage with many artists and notably opened for Eagle-Eye Cherry at the Carcassonne festival.

Passionate about sound research, he is particularly interested in synthesis, exploring the potential of both analogue and digital synthesizers.