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.
At first Rowy wrote experimental music, but a few years after she'd finished her study, 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. The last couple of years however, she manages to be quite 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 October 2009 Rowy started to write 100 compositions for piano at an intermediate level. The piano album was published in December 2010.
In 2010 she wrote an educational work on the classical European and the international (popular) notation of chords. This free work is available in Dutch and in English.
In 2011 Rowy composed The Good Life, an album of 3 Dozen Duos for cello and melody instrument. She also wrote the course Easy Chords.
Rowy was born and raised (and hopes to die) in the northern part of the former Duchy of Brabant in North-West Europe, now a province of the Kingdom of the Netherlands. Her family has been living there since the Middle Ages. Rowy has a son and a daughter.
The Duchy of Brabant was a region in the Low Countries. Composers from the Low Countries are Guillaume Dufay, Johannes Ockeghem, Josquin Des Prez, Jacob Obrecht, Jacobus Clemens non Papa, Orlando di Lasso, Jan Pieterszoon Sweelinck and many more.
Most famous musician from her country is Andre Rieu. Most famous orchestra the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra. Famous artists are Jeroen Bosch, Rembrandt, Vermeer, Van Gogh and Mondrian.