Romy Wymer is a Glasgow-based harp player and composer, originally from the Netherlands. Her compositions, which draw from traditional folk music, jazz and minimalism, are autobiographical in nature and seek to capture 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.
Romy writes and plays with harp trio The Willow Trio, who have released their EP 'Oystercatchers', folk ballet 'Eala Shà ilein', and most recently their second album 'the Bestiary', full of brand-new material for their unique instrumentation. She has also appeared on Glasgow jazz collective Azamiah's debut album 'In Phases' and a range of other albums.
... echoes of Steve Reich's "Counterpoint" performed by Pat Metheny ... a beautiful piece of minimalism.
-Marc Higgins, FATEA magazine
The highly adept composition stylings of Wymer display a close knowledge of the clarsach and an admirable musicality in her writing, which is both deftly paced and mindfully arranged ... It is a joyous capturing of sound which I cannot recommend highly enough.
- Sandy Power, The Music Files
