Florence Jowers

Sacred Music, Youth Chorus, Organ
228 Music Building
828 328 7195

Education

B.M., Stetson University
M.M. Yale University

Background

Florence Jowers is Associate Professor of Music and University Organist of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC, teaching in the Sacred Music Program. Ms. Jowers received music degrees in organ performance and church music from the Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, and Stetson University, DeLand, FL.

Organ study has been with Charles Krigbaum, Todd Wilson, Leonard Raver, and Paul Jenkins. She was the recipient of a Rotary International Fellowship for post-graduate study abroad, at which time she studied with the late Anton Heiller at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, and with Peter Planyavsky at St. Stephen's Cathedral. Ms. Jowers has recently served as president of Region 2 of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and as Dean of the Hickory Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.

She has served as clinician for AGO, ALCM, and PAM conferences, and has concertized extensively in the United States, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, including a 1995 performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, and has had performances aired on National Public Radios's "Pipedreams". She holds dual membership in the Charlotte and Hickory American Guild of Organist Chapters.