Soe Tjen Marching, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

    

Soe Tjen Marching

Indonesian composer, writer and academic

Date of Birth: 23-Apr-1971

Place of Birth: Surabaya, Indonesia

Profession: composer, poet, journalist

Nationality: Indonesia

Zodiac Sign: Taurus


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About Soe Tjen Marching

  • Soe Tjen Marching (born April 23, 1971 in Surabaya, Indonesia) is a writer, academic, activist, and a composer of avant-garde music from Indonesia.
  • In 1998, she won national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German Embassy.
  • Her compositions have been played in New Zealand, Indonesia and Japan.
  • Her work has been released on the CD Asia Piano Avantgarde - Indonesia, played by pianist Steffen Schleiermacher.
  • In 2010, her work has been selected as one of the two best compositions on the International Competition for avant-garde composers held in Singapore.
  • In her musical career, she has been mainly an autodidact. Besides being a composer, Marching is also a creative writer and a Senior Lector teaching Bahasa Indonesia (Indonesian language) at SOAS in London.
  • She completed her PhD at Monash University in Australia.
  • Her book, The Discrepancy between the Public and the Private Selves of Indonesian Women was published by The Edwin Mellen Press (2007).
  • She has also won several creative writing competitions in Australia and has been published in Australia, the United States and the United Kingdom.
  • She is married to Angus Nicholls, a literary scholar at Queen Mary University, London.
  • Her novel, Mati Bertahun yang Lalu, was published by Gramedia (Jakarta - Indonesia) in November 2010.
  • Her book about Indonesian women Kisah di Balik Pintu was published by Ombak in 2011 and her book about a woman suffering from cancer, Kubunuh di Sini, was published by Gramedia in 2013.
  • In 2017, her book on the 1965 genocide in Indonesia entitled The End of Silence: Accounts of the 1965 Genocide in Indonesia, was published by Amsterdam University Press.
  • In 2009, Soe Tjen founded a magazine in Indonesia called Majalah Bhinneka (Bhinneka Magazine), which promotes critical thinking about gender, politics and religions.
  • Soe Tjen has written several essays on women, Indonesian politics, and religions in Indonesian, English and German.

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