Lou Romao holds degrees and certificates in Mathematics, Music, Digital Arts, and Education. Since the mid-1980s Lou has contributed to all of these areas as a performer, session player, composer, arranger, music director, author, web and application designer, and educator. He has been a guitarist since 1976, and has worked in education since 1985.

Lou earned the Bachelor of Arts degree in Mathematics in 1985, and the Master of Music degree in 1990. During his graduate studies at the Hartt School, Lou studied classic guitar with Richard Provost, and performed in Masterclasses for noted guitar virtuosos, including Oscar Ghiglia, Manuel Barrueco, and David Tanenbaum.

As a guitarist during the 1990s Lou was an active performer and teacher of classical, jazz, and popular styles. Appearing in the United States and Europe, he was named by the New Haven Advocate as one of Connecticut's ten most recognized guitar soloists two years in a row. His New York City debut took place in March 1992, and was a featured soloist with the Farmington Valley Symphony Orchestra and the Cheshire Symphony Chamber Players. His performances included Antonio Vivaldi's Concerto in D and Claude Bolling's Concerto for Classical Guitar and Jazz Piano. Lou's European appearances include a lecture-demonstration at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary.

Lou began composing music in the mid 1990s. In addition to numerous pieces for solo guitar, he has composed Funk and Counterfunk for jazz band, and was comissioned to write incidental music for the theater production of March Tale, which took place at the Seven Angels Theatre in Waterbury. He has published articles and guitar transcriptions for a number of guitar society newsletters, and for Soundboard (the periodical for the Guitar Foundation of America).

In 1999, Lou began his studies in Computer Multimedia at Naugatuck Valley Community College under Dr. Antonio Biello, and was asked to teach in the department while still a student. He was the first instructor to teach Authoring courses after Dr. Biello, and has scripted and programmed interactive instructional aids, which he implemented in a number of schools. Lou received his Computer Multimedia certificate in 2004.

From 2000 to 2007, Lou was director of the Guitar Ensemble for the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society. The ensemble has performed in the Hartford, CT area during this time. In a special event in November 2005 sponsored by the Connecticut Classical Guitar Society, Lou conducted a forty-piece guitar orchestra at the Hartford Convention Center.

During the summer of 2010 Lou studied in the Alternate Route to Certification, and earned his Mathematics 029 Certification through the State of Connecticut.

In the summer of 2023 Lou conducted a guitar workshop at the Waterbury Arts Magnet School in Waterbury, CT. The workshop was organized for public school music teachers in hope that the guitar will be included in the music curricula in the Waterbury area.

Lou has been an Adjunct Instructor at Central Connecticut State University teaching in the Communication department since 2018. He has also been an Adjunct Instructor at Naugatuck Valley Community College since 1997. He is perhaps among a few adjuncts at Naugatuck Valley to have taught in at least three different departments (Music, Digital Arts, and Mathematics).