Andrea Kapell Loewy's Page

Andrea Kapell Loewy holds a Bachelor of Music degree from the Eastman School of Music, a Master of Music degree from Emporia State University and a Doctor of Musical Arts from Memphis University. Her teachers have included Joseph Mariano, Harold Bennett, Samuel Baron, Philip Kaplan, Bruce Erskine, and John Heiss. She played with the Mid-America Woodwind Quintet. Prior to her present job as Professor of Flute/Theory and Graduate Coordinator of the School of Music at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, she was Adjunct Flute Instructor at Rhodes College. In 1993, she was awarded the University of Southwestern Louisiana’s “Distinguished Professor Award,” and is the recipient of an Endowed Professorship Award. Loewy is Principal Flutist of the Acadiana Symphony and has played several concertos with the orchestra.  Loewy has participated in four concert/teaching tours to China and has performed at many national flute conventions, including those in New Orleans, St. Louis, Kansas City, Chicago, Dallas, and New York City. She has also served as Chair of the National Flute Association’s Newly-Published Music Committee. Centaur Records recently released her CD of contemporary flute works titled Apparitions and Whimsies.