Florence Jowers
Applied Organ
Sacred Music
Handbell Ensemble
Youth Chorus

Florence Jowers is Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist of Lenoir-Rhyne College in Hickory, NC, teaching in the Sacred Music Program.  Ms. Jowers received music degrees in organ performance and church music from the Yale University School of Music, New Haven, CT, and Stetson University, DeLand, FL.  

Organ study has been with Charles Krigbaum, Todd Wilson, Leonard Raver, and Paul Jenkins. She was the recipient of a Rotary International Fellowship for post-graduate study abroad, at which time she studied with the late Anton Heiller at the Hochschule für Musik in Vienna, Austria, and with Peter Planyavsky at St. Stephen's Cathedral.  Ms. Jowers has recently served as president of Region 2 of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, and as Dean of the Hickory Chapter of the American Guild of Organists.  

She has served as clinician for AGO, ALCM, and PAM conferences, and has concertized extensively in the United States, Germany, Austria, and the Czech Republic, including a 1995 performance at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, and has had performances aired on National Public Radios's "Pipedreams".   She holds dual membership in the Charlotte and Hickory American Guild of Organist Chapters.