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Soe Tjen Marching (born April 23, 1971 in Surabaya, Indonesia) is a feminist and a composer of avant-garde music in Indonesia. She studied composition with Slamet Abdul Sjukur in Indonesia and John Cousins at Canterbury University in New Zealand. In 1998, she won national competition for Indonesian Contemporary Composers held by the German Embassy and AKI. 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.

Besides being a composer, Marching is also an academic in social sciences and a creative writer. 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, America and United Kingdom. She is married to the literary scholar at Queen Mary University of London, Angus Nicholls.

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