Andrew Lowen studied music at Birmingham University where his main interests were in singing and Baroque performance practice. He conducted the university chamber choir and later directed the London-based chamber choir Polyphony. It is as a teacher and enthuser of young talent that Andrew has found his primary vocation.

In the 1980s his boys' choir performed in most of the major cathedrals of the British Isles. During the 1990s he worked at Kent College in Canterbury,where he developed a music department which was presenting works such as Verdi's Requiem, Holst's The Planets and major Romantic symphonies.

Andrew's career highlights include Verdi's Requiem in Canterbury Cathedral and in Cheltenham Town Hall; Saint-Saens' Organ Symphony in Canterbury Cathedral; and Haydn's Creation in Central Hall Westminster.

Andrew is conductor of the Folkestone and Hythe Orchestral Society and the Canterbury Orchestra, and has been musical director of the Sittingbourne Orpheus Choral Society since January 2007. He also works with the young musicians of the South Kent Youth Orchestra. Andrew is a visiting lecturer at Canterbury Christ Church University and he spends four days a week at Maidstone Grammar School where he is Director of Music.

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