Jenny Rompas
*15 October 1979
Works by Jenny Rompas
Biography
Jenny ROMPAS is an Indonesian-born Singaporean composer, pianist, pedagogue, and founder of Jenny Stanford Publishing (formerly Pan Stanford Publishing) since 2005, focusing on nanomaterials and liberal arts. Ms Rompas read law at the University of London and music composition at the University of Wales. Prior to that, she was awarded the Associate as well as Licenciate in Music (piano performance) within a year. She is largely self-taught as a composer, though received advice from Soetarno Soetikno, John Sharpley, Eric Watson, Slamet Sjukur, Henri Dutilleux, Éric Antoni, and Phoon Yew Tien. In addition to being a full-time publisher, Ms Rompas also maintains a music studio where she teaches piano, theory, and composition. She usually prepares learners for accelerated advanced classes, promotes self-directed learning to students, and actively champions music for diverse audiences.
About the music
A child prodigy and polymath brought up in a literary and artistic milieu, Ms Rompas received early musical training from her father. She began playing piano by ear and fitting chords to melodies at the age of three; without any prior piano lessons, she could transpose and play back Tchaikovksy’s Piano Concerto No. 1 and a good number of pieces she encountered at the age of six. Ms Rompas composes music that portrays simplicity, reflecting a lifelong interest in reduction and purity alongside the belief that music often communicates cultural intricacy lucidly. Her interest in liberal arts and her past as a math olympian, when she was eleven, have inspired her to create a highly diverse cross-cultural exploration of sound and music. Her output includes opera, orchestral, gamelan, chamber, music for dance and theatre, electroacoustic, solo instrumental, choral, and vocal works as well as arrangements for folk music and songs from all over the world. Ms Rompas's music is also available at the UCLA Music Library.