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Marching, Soe Tjen (b. April 23, 1971, Surabaya, Java). Indonesian composer, now resident in both Indonesia and the UK, of orchestral, chamber, choral, vocal, and piano works that have been performed in Asia and Europe.
Ms. Marching studied violin privately in Surabaya from 1983–92, composition privately with Slamet Abdul Sjukur in Surabaya from 1988–93 and composition with John Cousin at the University of Canterbury in New Zealand in 1993–94. She later studied at Monash University and there earned her PhD in Asian and women's studies in 2003.
Among her honors is a prize as co-winner in the German Embassy/composers union Asosiasi Komponis Indonesia (AKI) competition for piano composition in Jakarta (1998, for Kenang). Her music has been performed in Germany, Indonesia, Japan and New Zealand and has been broadcast in the UK.
Ms. Marching is also active in other positions. She worked as a violinist in the Surabaya Symphony Orchestra in 1997–98. As a writer, her essays, poems and short stories have been published in Australia, the UK and the USA. In addition, she has written the book The Discrepancy between the Public and the Private Selves of Indonesian Women (2007, The Edwin Mellen Press).
She appeared as a guest lecturer on feminism and Indonesian literature in Australia in 2000–01, on composition, feminism and music in Indonesia from 2006–08 and on ethnicity in Germany in 2007.
She has lived in both Indonesia and the UK since 2005.
CONTACT INFORMATION
E-mail address: smarching@yahoo.com
SELECT LIST OF WORKS
ORCHESTRAL: Awang, string orchestra, 1991
CHAMBER MUSIC: Dalu, 3 violins, cello, 1990; Bintang-bintang, 2 violins, piano, 1990; The Silence, flute, violin, piano, 1993; The Bears' Company, 4 melodicas, 1996
CHORAL: The Frogs (text by the composer), 4 mixed voices, 1995; Karma (text by the composer), 6 male voices, 1999
VOCAL: The Chanting (text by the composer), alto, 1999
PIANO: Bintang dan Malam, 2 pianos, 1990; The Web, 1991; The Christmas Eve, 1992; El from my Diary, 1994; The Winter Waltz, 1995; Kenang, 1997; Ter, 2008
DISCOGRAPHY
Kenang. Steffen Schleiermacher, piano (Musikproduktion Dabringhaus und Grimm: MDG 613 1322-2, 2005)
(Last updated on January 14, 2009)
