Ciro Romano
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| Occupation(s) | Lawyer & Festival promoter, founder of Love Supreme Jazz Festival, Nocturne Live at Blenheim Palace and KITE Festivals |
Ciro Romano is a music festival promoter and lawyer best known for founding the annual Love Supreme Jazz Festival at Glynde Place.[1]
Romano founded Neapolitan Music in 2001 and Neapolitan Live in 2011, is a former corporate lawyer (Clifford Chance) and was Head of Legal and Business Affairs at Universal Music International.[2]
After his successful career as a lawyer and record label executive he founded Neapolitan Music. Romano is now the festival director of Love Supreme Jazz Festival which he launched in July 2013 in Glynde, East Sussex. The Huffington Post declared it “the best new festival in the UK”[3] and The Guardian “the Glastonbury of Jazz”[4]. The event is now the largest outdoor jazz festival in Europe with a weekend attendance in excess of 50,000 and is routinely referenced as one of the top jazz festivals in Europe. [5][6]
Romano is also the founder of Nocturne Live at Blenheim Palace – a UNESCO world heritage site. Nocturne is widely considered the premiere stately home concert series in the UK. It has featured artists such as Elton John, Ennio Morricone, Kylie, Lauryn Hill, Noel Gallagher, Gary Barlow, Nile Rodgers, Tears For Fears, Gladys Knight, Van Morrison, Gregory Porter, Elvis Costello, Max Richter and Ludovico Einaudi.
Early Life and Career
Romano was born in Glasgow to Italian parents. His father was Mario Romano, an acknowledged pioneer in the introduction of fine Italian cuisine in the UK.[7]
Romano attended St. Aloysius College, Glasgow and went on to gain an Honours Degree in Law from the University of Strathclyde before winning a government scholarship to study for a Masters in European Law at the European University Institute in Florence. He took his Diploma in Legal Practice and subsequently qualified as a lawyer specialising in corporate and commercial law.
Following a short stint at the European Commission in Brussels in 1991, Romano moved to Clifford Chance in the City where he specialised in intellectual property law and company law.
PolyGram & Universal Music
In 1995 Romano moved to Polygram Music where he was legal adviser in Corporate Legal before rising to Director of Legal and Business affairs.[8]
Following the acquisition of PolyGram by Seagram in 1999, Romano became Vice President of Legal and Business affairs at Universal Music before leaving to set up Neapolitan in 2001.
Neapolitan Limited
Recorded Music
Romano is the co-owner of the soundtrack album of the multi-Oscar winning ‘Slumdog Millionaire’.[9] The album won 2 music Oscars and 2 Grammys and has sold more than two million albums worldwide and over 2 million singles.
In 2014, Neapolitan released the soundtrack to the hit No.1 film "Sunshine on Leith" based on the music of the Proclaimers.
Live Music and Festivals
In 2011 Romano founded Neapolitan Live and in 2013 launched Love Supreme Jazz Festival with Jazz FM. The festival initially struggled but rallied at the last minute due to a legendary Glastonbury performance by Nile Rodgers the week before boosting sales at the last minute [10]. Since then the festival has grown to become one of the largest Jazz Festivals in Europe attracting 50,000 visitors over the course of the weekend. As well as the annual festivals in Glynde Romano has also promoted small shows under the Love Supreme banner at The Roundhouse and other smaller London venues as "Supreme Standards."
In 2015 U-Live bought out Jazz FM's share of Love Supreme to become Romano's co-promoter and in the same year he launched Nocturne Live at Blenheim Palace which has since hosted the likes of Kylie Minogue, Elton John, Lauryn Hill and many more.
In 2020 Romano and U-Live joined with Tortoise Media to launch KITE Festival, to be the first greenfield festival of music and ideas [11]. The first edition of the festival was scheduled to take place in 2020 but was postponed due to the COVID-19 Pandemic.
Personal Life
Romano lives in London and is married with three children. His sister is journalist and former ITV presenter [Carla Romano].
He is the brother in law of Italian World Cup winner and former AC Milan star [Gennaro Gattuso] currently manager of [Napoli SSC] who became close to Romano’s family whilst playing for [Rangers FC] in Glasgow.[12]
References
- ↑ d'Ancona, Matthew. "Creative Sensemaker Live: reasons to be cheerful in 2021". Tortoise.
- ↑ "Ciro Romano". Mishcon de Reya.
- ↑ "REVIEW: Love Supreme Might Just Be Britain's Best New Music Festival". HuffPost UK. July 10, 2013.
- ↑ "Love Supreme festival review – Grace Jones and blitzing saxes set the manor howling". The Guardian. July 4, 2016.
- ↑ "Top 10 Jazz Festivals in Europe - Festicket Magazine". Festicket.
- ↑ "Top 10 jazz festivals in Europe". The Guardian. April 20, 2016.
- ↑ "Italian restaurateur Mario Romano leaves £4m fortune in will".
- ↑ "Summing up - Ciro Romano, 49". LIVE UK. January 19, 2018.
- ↑ "Summit Blog: Ciro Romano, Sketches of Pain: Bucking the Received Wisdom in the Music Festival Market - Brighton Chamber". www.brightonchamber.co.uk.
- ↑ "Grooving in Glynde – Ciro Romano talks about five years of Love Supreme Jazz Festival". Jazzwise.
- ↑ "Kite: new festival from Love Supreme team to debut in UK". January 23, 2020.
- ↑ "Italian restaurateur Mario Romano leaves £4m fortune in will".
External Links
- Neapolitan Music Neapolitan Music
- Love Supreme Jazz FestivalHome | Love Supreme – 2nd July – 4th July 2021
- Nocturne Live Nocturne Live | Nocturne Concerts at Blenheim Palace
- KITE Festival KITE FESTIVAL - A NEW FESTIVAL OF IDEAS AND MUSIC, 12–14 JUNE 2020 KIRTLINGTON PARK, OXFORDSHIRE
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