Lowri joined the CBSO as Section Leader Second Violin in January 2024. Prior to this Lowri was Co-Leader of the Welsh National Opera Orchestra. Joining in 2005, she enjoyed a long, distinguished and rewarding career with WNO, regularly appearing as Leader of the Orchestra.
Whilst at WNO she made guest appearances in principal positions with many UK orchestras, most recently including the Royal Opera House Orchestra, BBC National Orchestra of Wales and City of Birmingham Symphony Orchestra. Before joining WNO, she was Principal Second Violin of Northern Ballet Theatre, also playing regularly with the Scottish Ensemble.
Aside from her orchestral work, Lowri is a passionate chamber musician, co-founding both the Ceridwen Quartet and the Zoltan Ensemble. She was invited to play at the Corbridge Chamber Music Festival by the Gould Piano Trio in 2016 and the same year gave a recital at St David’s Hall in Cardiff as part of their lunchtime series. During her time in Cardiff, she regularly appeared as a soloist with the City of Cardiff Symphony Orchestra.
Lowri was a dedicated member of the teaching staff at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama from 2015 to 2024. In 2020 she completed her Masters at the Royal College of Music studying Performance Science, covering subjects including performance psychology, performance education and musicians’ health and wellbeing. She trained as a coach through the Guildhall School of Music and Drama, achieving her Practitioner award through the European Mentoring and Coaching Council (EMCC) in 2022. She is also accredited at Foundation Level as a team coach through the EMCC. Whilst at the RWCMD, she ran a series of seminars for the RWCMD postgraduate pathway orchestral specialists covering psychological, emotional and social skills.
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. During her time at the Academy Lowri was awarded the DipRAM prize and led the European Union Youth Orchestra. She was part of the 2022-23 cohort on the Association of British Orchestras “Find your way” programme, a leadership programme designed to encourage participants to examine, broaden and improve on current practice for the long-term benefit of the classical music sector.
She was recently made an Associate of the Royal Academy of Music in recognition of her achievements. She plays on a Testore violin.
