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David M. Lowry
Emeritus Professor of Music, D.M.A., University of North Texas
Organ, Organ Literature, Musicology
129 Conservatory of Music
803 323-2255
davidl1205@aol.com
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David Lowry is Professor of Music Emeritus, Department of Music Winthrop University, Rock Hill, SC, where he has held appointment since 1965, and where he continues to teach part time. Dr. Lowry's career has included organ recitals throughout the United States and in England, Switzerland, Austria and Italy. He is the co-founder, with Shirley Fishburne, and the music director/conductor of the York County Choral Society, celebrating its 27th season 2007-8. He is the Parish Musician of The Episcopal Church of the Good Shepherd in Columbia, SC.
He holds the degrees Bachelor of Music from Baldwin-Wallace College in Cleveland, the Master of Sacred Music from Union Theological Seminary of New York, and the Doctor of Musical Arts from the University of North Texas in Denton.
Dr. Lowry is a past president of the Association of Anglican Musicians. He served on the board of the Royal School of Church Music in America from 1981 to 2001. In 2002 the RSCM bestowed on him the award HonRSCM in a festival at St. Asaph Cathedral in Wales.
Many of Dr. Lowry’s students serve with acclaim in the concert field, and ecclesiastical and educational positions.
He is currently the Curator for the Restoration of the Organ in Byrnes Audtiorium at Winthrop, and a reviewer of classical concerts for Columbia's "Free Times."
Dr. Lowry has always been interested in contemporary music, especially as it complements the work of organists, instrumentalists, church choirs, and civic choruses. He has been responsible for commissioning and/or giving first performances of works by composers John Bertalot, Gary Davison, Kevin Gray, Andrew J. Hayler, Robert Hutchinson, James MacMillan, Gerald Near, Thomas Pegram, Craig Phillips, Robert J. Powell, Michael Sitton, Bruce A. Thompson, Amaral Vieira, Samuel Walter, David Ashley White, Nicholas White, and Jane Walker Wiley.
The annual conferences of the Association of Anglican Musicians in 1987 and 1997, both of them in England, were planned by Dr. Lowry. As a part of the 1997 conference, Lowry conducted the first London performance of James MacMillan's "Galloway Mass" at Southwark Cathedral. In 2000, he led the York County Choral Society to the United Kingdom for a residency at St. David's Cathedral, Wales, and concerts in St. Mary's Prestbury in Gloucestershire, and at Durham and Lincoln Cathedrals. The YCCS traveled to the UK again in 2003, singing concerts in Alnwick, Northumbria and in Bangor, Wales, and Choral Evensongs in St. Mary's Cathedral, Edinburgh, Scotland; St. Deiniol's Cathedral, Bangor, Wales; and St. Patrick's Cathedral, Dublin, Ireland. On both tours the YCCS sang music all by American composers. In 2006 the YCCS was in residence at the Washington National Cathedral for three choral evensongs and one Sunday Eucharist, singing music of American composers.
Publications
Lowry's organ arrangement of Scheidt's Galliard Bataglia has been published by Selah Publications as A Trumpet Galliard (see www.selahpub.com/AAM.html). An anthem, The morning shall awaken , text by John Mason Neale and first performed in June 1997 by the Salisbury Cathedral Choir, England, is published by ECSchirmer of Boston, No. 5306 (see www.ecspublishing.com) In January 2007 his unison anthem "A Gaelic Prayer" was published by Paraclete Press and was incorporated into the 2007 reading packets of the Sewanee Conference of the Episcopal Church and the Texas Choral Directors Association (see www.paracletepress.com).
Miller/Lowry Duo
Michael Miller and Lowry have been performing together since 1995 and continue to be available for booking. The Duo's CD, "Breaking Ground" was released on the ProOrgano label, No. 7026, and has received favorable reviews in the American Record Guide, The Diapason, The American Organist, and the Journal of the AAM. Portions of it have been heard on Public Radio's "Pipedreams" and the syndicated radio program "With Heart and Voice." The artists have been guest performers in the Chamber Concerts series at Merton Abbey Mills in London, near Wimbledon. In 2001, the Miller-Lowry Duo appeared in the L'Organo series of Piccolo Spoleto in Charleston, SC, with first performances of "Remember" by Rob Hutchinson, and Scherzo and Trio by Michael Sitton. In 2003, the Miller-Lowry Duo appeared again in Piccolo Spoleto which coincided with the Region IV American Guild of Organists' Convention. premiering a new work commissioned of Dick Goodwin called Jazz Miniatures. Miller, for some time the principal trumpet of the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra is now with the Cleveland Orchestra.
York County Choral Society
In recent concerts, the YCCS has performed the American Premier of Requiem by Ian Higginson, a work introduced to Lowry while the YCCS was on tour in the UK. The YCCS’s first performance of Bach’s St. John Passion took place in the spring of 2001. Subsequent performances have included Mozart’s Coronation Mass , a premiere of Four Persian Poetic Miniatures by Bruce A. Thompson, Haydn's Mass in Time of War (with an appearance of US Congressman John Spratt commenting on the search for peace), and in the spring of 2004, the YCCS performed the American Premiere of the Seven Last Words of Christ on the Cross by Brazilian composer Amaral Vieira with new English translations by Lowry. For further YCCS information, see www.yorkcountychoralsociety.org.
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