Roman Lvovich (born July 30, 1972, in Kazan) is a composer, film composer, arranger, and performer. He graduated early with honors in 2000 from the composition faculty of the Moscow State Conservatory, where Roman Ledenev was his professor. He also studied with composer Gennady Gladkov. In 2017, he served as executive secretary of the Union of Composers of Russia.
Lvovich has written operas and musicals for the stage. His opera-musical The Hobbit ran at the St. Petersburg Theater Beyond the Looking Glass from 2002 to 2008. His documentary opera with musical elements, The Marburg Account, about the lives of Mikhail Lomonosov and Boris Pasternak, premiered in Marburg, Germany, in 2003, followed by performances in Moscow in 2004. His one-act opera The Inspector General: After the Comedy premiered at the Theater of Nations in Moscow in 2006. The Black Hen ran at the Musical Theater of Karelia in Petrozavodsk from 2010 to 2022 and received five Golden Mask Award nominations.
Other stage works include the one-act opera-mystery Kalevala; the musical The Man in a Case, released as an audiobook; and the one-act musical The Ant's Journey, or From Dawn to Dusk, staged in St. Petersburg in 2020 and in Petrozavodsk in 2024. The latter received six Golden Mask Award nominations and six nominations at the Musical Heart of the Theater festival. His musical Dangerous Liaisons premiered at the Novosibirsk Musical Theater in 2022, and the light opera Mishka's Porridge was staged in St. Petersburg in 2025. His theater music includes productions at the Moscow Art Theater, the Mossovet Theater, and the Ruben Simonov Theater.
Lvovich has also written orchestral and chamber music, including the piano trio Russian Frescoes, commissioned by the Saarbrücken Music Festival, and Music for an Unmade Film, a suite for symphony orchestra. His screen work includes music for the feature film He, She and I (2007) and several documentaries. He founded and leads the Third Rome studio, which produces electronic arrangements and handles recording mixing and processing. He has appeared as a pianist in television series and entertainment programs.
His honors include the 1998 All-Russian Young Composers' Competition and the Mariinsky Theater Award in 2005. He received nominations for the Golden Mask Award in 2012 and for the Musical Heart of the Theater festival in 2023, and won the For the Good of the World National Award in 2019 and 2021.