Born in Cardiff in 1977, Lowri read music at
Selwyn College, Cambridge, before studying with Howard Davis and
Marianne Thorsen at the Royal Academy of Music where she was
awarded the DipRAM prize in the Postgraduate Performance Course;
she also led the European Union Youth Orchestra in her time at the
Academy.
She is now Assistant Leader (No 2) for Welsh
National Opera, having been with the orchestra since 2005. As well
as regularly leading WNO, she has made guest appearances as Leader
of the Bournemouth Symphony Orchestra and the BBC Philharmonic,
Co-Leader of the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, and
Principal 2nd of the Royal Northern Sinfonia, the BBC
Philharmonic and BBC Scottish Symphony orchestras. Before joining
WNO, she was Principal 2nd of Northern Ballet Theatre,
and also played regularly with the Scottish Ensemble.
Lowri is a founder member of the Zoltan Ensemble who have given
concerts recently in Cornwall, Hay on Wye and Oxford. She was
musical director of Project Instrumental from 2013-15 and has been
a regular at the St Endellion Summer Festival in Cornwall since
2011, by invitation of the tenor Mark Padmore.
She plays an 18th century Stainer
school violin, loaned to her by a Welsh family.