Fabio Romano, born in Palermo, attended the local conservatoire as a pupil of Gaetano Cellizza (piano) and of Eliodoro Sollima (composition).

Later on, he was student at the Musikhochschule in Munich, with Gerhard Oppitz as mentor.


Among his major concerto performances, he played as soloist together with the Moscow Symphony Orchestra, the Museumsorchester Frankfurt ,
the Württembergische Philharmonie,
the Korean Chamber Ensemble
and the Münchner Symphoniker.

He performed under the conductors Dmitri Liss, Paolo Carignani, Markus Poschner, Min Kim, Roberto Paternostro, in venues like the Frankfurter Alte Oper, the Seoul Arts Center and, within the Münchner Festspiele, the Cuvilliées-Theater.

At June 2008 he won the 4th prize at the renowned Sviatoslav Richter International Piano Competition
in Moscow.

He recorded for the RAI (Italian Radio and Television Broadcast) and such German radio broadcasts as Bayerischer Rundfunk, Hessischer Rundfunk, Deutschland Funk and Deutschland Radio Berlin.


From 1986 to 1992, he taught piano classes at
the conservatoires of Palermo and Trapani, Italy.

Later on, he accompanied the singing classes led
by Daphne Evangelatos at the Musikhochschule
in Munich.


In May 2001 he held a master class at the
University of Suwon, Korea.

Since 2004, Fabio Romano is teaching piano at the
Hochschule für Musik und Theater München.