Romy Wymer
Romy Wymer is a Glasgow-based harpist, originally from the Netherlands.
Her compositions, which draw from traditional folk music, jazz and minimalism, are autobiographical in nature and seek to capture and appreciate the joy of mundanity in life.
Romy studied traditional music with Heather Downie at the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, where she graduated with first class honours. Since then, she was awarded second place and the audience award in the World Harp Competition 2021 for her programme Lore, and she was a semifinalist in the BBC Young Traditional Musician of the Year 2021.
She has been commissioned to write a piece for lever harp, string quartet and percussion for the 2022 Dutch Harp Festival - titled 'Footprints/Pathways', that premiered at that year's festival.
Romy writes and plays with harp trio The Willow Trio, who have released their EP 'Oystercatchers' and folk ballet 'Eala Shàilein', a Gaelic take on Tchaikovsky's Swan Lake. She has also appeared on Glasgow jazz collective Azamiah's debut album 'In Phases'.