Lowry awarded AMT Article of the Year.(National Association News)

"Emerging Trends and Issues and Their Impact on the Individual Music Teacher," by Douglas Lowry, was selected as the 2004 American Music Teacher Article of the Year.

Featured in the April/May 2004 issue, this article was part of AMT's "Visions" series and based on a keynote speech Lowry gave at the 2003 Summit for MTNA Leadership.

Lowry is dean of the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music and is the Thomas James Kelly Professor.

Prior to this position, Lowry served as associate professor of conducting, winds and percussion, music director of the Thornton Wind Sympnony and chair of the conducting studies department at the University of Southern California Flora L. Thornton School of Music, where he went on to become an associate dean.

He was a pre-concert lecturer for the Pacific Symphony Orchestra and co-host of The Xerox Corporation's Music from USC for KUSC Radio. He also was music director for the International Music Day in Chiba. Japan, and has conducted orchestras at Mount St. Mary's College and Pomona College.

Lowry was founding music director and conductor of the Peninsula Chamber Orchestra in Palos Verdes California, and frequently appears as a guest conductor and clinician of orchestras and wind ensembles throughout the U.S. Lowry's recent compositional ...