Philippe Rombi

Philippe Rombi Biography

Philippe Rombi (born April 3, 1968 in Pau, France) is French composers of film scores. Philippe began his musical studies in the Conservatoire National de Région of Marseille, in particular with Pierre Barbizet for the piano and with Pol Mule for the conducting, and received First Prize for conducting, Golden Medal in piano and in chamber music, Grand Prix of the City of Marseille. By discovering the compositions of John William for "Star Wars" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" that Philippe Rombi decides to complete his studies and to specialize in soundtrack writing. Then he worked on music for movies at Ecole Supérieure de Musique of Paris, in the class of Antoine Duhamel. Diplôme Superieur de Composition. He began composing for short films for the pupils of the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Métiers de l'Image et du Son (Fémis) and then worked on his first movie with François Ozon - "Les Amants Criminels" (1999). Then it was "Sous le Sable" (2000), "Swimming Pool" (2003), "5x2" (2004) and "Angel" (2007). Philippe Rombi also wrote, among others, the musics for "Oui, Mais..." (2001) by Yves Lavandier and two Christian Carion's movies - "Une Hirondelle a fait le Printemps" (2001), his first success with the public, and "Joyeux Noël" (aka "Merry Christmas") (2005), for which he was nominated for Césars 2005. Besides the fact of being a composer and an orchestrator, Philippe Rombi is also a pianist and a conductor.