Romain Collin On Piano Jazz....

Visionary young pianist and composer Romain Collin came to the U.S. from Antibes, in the South of France, on a scholarship to the Berklee College of Music. While there, he studied under Dave Liebman and Joe Lovano, and won the school's highly coveted Joe Zawinul Award for Music Synthesis.

Collin then earned his Masters with the Thelonious Monk Institute ensemble, which included a Southeast Asian tour playing with faculty members Wayne Shorter and Herbie Hancock, two of the most accomplished composers in jazz. Before graduating in 2007, Collin formed his own trio and began an ambitious project that would become his debut album, a suite of original compositions titled The Rise and Fall of Pipokuhn. Collin brings his original music and a few standards to this episode of Piano Jazz with guest host Jon Weber.

"When I write music, it helps if I can dedicate the composition to a particular emotion or event in my life," Collin says. "It helps to focus the theme of the piece."

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