Norman Lowrey

His most recent work has included performances in the CRAIVE Lab at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (Troy, New York) and as a video/sound artist, he received a commission in 2016 to create an installation piece in the Smithsonian's Freer|Sackler Galleries of Asian Art for an exhibit of 2500-year-old Chinese Bells.

As an outgrowth of his performances with Singing Masks, he collaborated with Cynthia Poten, previously the Delaware Riverkeeper, on a project funded by a grant from the Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation in the spring of 1994 called 'River Sounding.' This included people participating in listening sessions along the 350 mile length of the Delaware River, and culminating in an exhibit with performances at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia.

Lowrey spent many years as a professor of music, specializing in composition and theory. He was a composer in residence and Assistant Professor of Music at California State University at San Diego from 1971 to 1972, Instructor of Humanities at Stephens College (Columbia, Missouri) in 1972 to 1976, and Professor of Music at Drew University (Madison, New Jersey) from 1977 to 2016, where he taught composition and theory, along with analog and digital electronic composition. He also instructed students in environmentally-based composition.

Norman Eugene Lowrey (born 1944, Midland, Michigan) is a composer, mask-maker, performance/sound/video artist, and music educator. He studied composition privately with Samuel Jones in 1964–65, earned a Bachelor of Music from Texas Christian University in 1967, and completed his formal music education at the Eastman School of Music in Rochester New York. He received an M.M. in theory (1970), and a PhD in composition in 1974. Lowrey is also well known as an associate of the American composer Pauline Oliveros (May 30, 1932 – November 24, 2016).