About Rowy
Although her father was a music teacher, it was not until she was sixteen that Rowy started to learn to play an instrument. When Rowy was eighteen, she finished a concerto for strings. At the age of nineteen she was accepted to the Conservatory of Music to study composition.
Rowy wrote experimental music for some time, but a few years after she'd finished her study at the conservatory, she went back to her roots. Since then she has been writing light-hearted music with a touch of melancholy.
Unfortunately, Rowy suffers from a nasty disease called sarcoidosis. The last couple of years however, she manages to be very productive.
Apart from being a composer and a teacher, Rowy is also a writer. In 2008 she wrote 100 short stories in Dutch. In 2009 she started to write articles on music. Rowy also wrote a book on harmony in Dutch.
In 2009 Rowy started to write 100 compositions for piano at an intermediate level. This music book will be available in 2010.
Rowy was born and raised (and hopes to die) in the northern part of the former Duchy of Brabant in Western Europe, now a province of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. She has a son and a daughter.