Igor Roma was born in Baden, in the German-speaking part of Switzerland, where he started studying the piano at the age of eleven.

In 1984, he moved to Italy and started attending piano classes at the Conservatoire in Vicenza with Carlo Mazzoli until 1991, when he received his diploma with honors.

At the end of the Eighties, Roma won various Italian piano competitions and was admitted to the prestigious International Piano Academy “Incontri col Maestro” in Imola, where he studied with Franco Scala, Lazar Berman, Boris Petrushansky and Alexander Lonquich.

His repertoire ranges from Bach to Messiaen and includes lesser-known piano pieces by composers such as De Falla, Szymanowski, Kurtag and Charles-Valentin Alkan, of whom he recorded his Etude Op.

He has also been a regular guest at the “Peter the Great Festival” of Groningen and of the “Imola Piano Academy” of Eindhoven.