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 Maidstone Youth Orchestra and South Kent Youth Orchestra, and frequently appears on the podium with the Folkestone and Hythe Orchestral Society. He runs a music festival in Charing each May that features his own Amici Orchestra. In January 2007 Andrew took up the post of musical director of the large and flourishing Sittingbourne Orpheus Choral Society.

He is Director of Music at Maidstone Grammar School

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