Romain Collin is a New York-based pianist and composer signed to E2 Music.
Romain Collin is a Grammy-nominated pianist who has been praised by NPR as a “visionary composer” and hailed by the Boston Globe as one of the “leading lights of a new breed of jazz players.” The NY-based, French- American musician has developed “a highly personal and contemporary vision” (A Blog Supreme, NPR), a style “unique and engaging without obvious influences” (All About Jazz) that seamlessly blends improvisation, electronic sound design, indie rock, and film scoring.
Collin attended Berklee College of Music (’04), where he majored in Music Synthesis. He then went on to graduate from the Herbie Hancock Institute of Jazz in 2007, where he held a Full Scholarship as the pianist of an ensemble handpicked by Herbie Hancock, Wayne Shorter, and Terence Blanchard. Collin’s debut album as a leader, The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn (Fresh Sound, 2009), was hailed as “an astonishingly mature and ambitious debut that secures Collin a placeholder in the continuing evolution of the grand tradition of the piano trio” by All About Jazz. He was soon after invited by legendary pianist Marian McPartland to her prestigious Piano Jazz show on NPR to discuss his artistic vision and perform solo piano. In 2012, Collin released his second album as a leader, The Calling (Palmetto), described as “a tour de force that showcases Collin’s strengths as an accomplished composer and virtuoso pianist of the highest order” by JazzEd Magazine, and as “a work of art that is worthy of being held onto for generations to come” (Eric Sandler, The Revivalist). His third release, Press Enter (ACT, 2015), was described by the New York Times as a “winning new album,” hailed by Jazz journal, UK as an “absolute masterpiece,” and praised by All About Jazz as an “extraordinary album.” Collin’s 2019 releas e,Lights… (XM), has been celebrated as “a unique voice, a crystal clear vision” by UK VIBE. Romain’s latest record, Dust (E2/ Edition, 2025), is an intimate solo piano album accompanied by a series of short films that will be exhibited in contemporary art galleries in the US and Europe.
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