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Personal Profile
Welcome! My name is Joshua Lowery. I am a composer, conductor, pianist, cellist, amateur hand-bellist, semi-professional hand-bell director, producer, video editor, game music developer, and I like taking photos on vacation.
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This website serves as a bit of a portfolio and a what I have been up to lately. My social media links on the side are probably the most up to date, but everything ends up on here and has a nice top down view of what I'm up to.
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Bio
Joshua Lowery is a composer, music producer, and university professor based out of Oklahoma. Joshua has premiered original works internationally and nationally. He has won competitions for his works for bassoon, piano, and orchestra. He was the winner of the 2023 Huang Family Composition Commission. Joshua writes everything from symphony orchestra, chamber music, solo instrument, film scores, game scores, and TTRPG soundtracks. He is in the process of releasing a 25+ piece project on music streaming services under the artist name: Loriem. As a performer, Joshua has accompanied ballet class for the Tulsa Ballet and Louisville Ballet dance education programs. He plays piano in a local piano quartet, and plays cello with Trio Ponticello.
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During the academic season, Joshua teaches classes on film scoring, game scoring, composition, and orchestration at his alma mater, the University of Tulsa (TU). Additionally, he designed and expanded the game scoring course in collaboration with the Computer Simulation and Gaming program at TU. This effort led to him hosting a panel discussion at the 2024 Game Sound Conference on “Cross Disciplinary Approaches to Game Audio Education.”
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He received his Bachelor of Music Composition at the University of Tulsa and studied conducting both at the University of Tulsa and at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. Joshua then received both a Master of Music in Orchestral Conducting and also a Master of Music in Composition from the University of Louisville. He was an assistant conductor and an instructor of music theory at the university.