JOHN T. LOWE, JR. is a native of Lynchburg, Virginia. He received the Bachelor of Science degree in Organ Performance from Liberty University in 1993, the double Master of Music degree in Organ Performance and Choral Conducting from the University of Alabama in 1996, and the Doctor of Music degree in Organ Performance and Church Music from Indiana University, Bloomington in 2005, His teachers include David Charles Campbell, George B. Clark, the late J. Warren Hutton, Larry Smith, and Christopher Young in organ, and Sandra Willetts in conducting. In September 2007, he assumed the duties of Director of Music and Organist at Gainesville, Florida’s Holy Trinity Episcopal Church, where he oversees the music program for the 1,125-member congregation, and plays the three-manual, forty-nine rank Visser-Rowland organ in liturgies and concerts. He is Music Director of the 140-voice Village Voices Chorus (The Villages, Florida), and the Dean of the Gainesville Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, for whom he served as Director of the chapter’s first Pipe Organ Encounter (POE) for young organists in summer 2012.
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Court Street United Methodist Church
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621 Court Street, Lynchburg, VA 24504 (+Google Maps)