Florence Jowers is Professor Emerita of Lenoir-Rhyne University in Hickory, NC, where she served many years as University Organist and taught in the Sacred Music Program. Ms. Jowers was, most recently, organist at Christ Lutheran Church, Staunton, VA. For the 2022-23 academic year, she is serving, along with her husband Paul Weber, as Visiting Professor of Church Music and Organist of the School of Theology of the University of the South in Sewanee, TN. She is an active recitalist, having performed throughout the United States and Germany, and also in Austria, Latvia, and the Czech Republic. Ms. Jowers has served as president of Region 2 of the Association of Lutheran Church Musicians, Dean of the Hickory Chapter of the American Guild of Organists, and has served on the executive board and as an officer in several chapters of the American Guild of Organists. Ms. Jowers was selected as a Fellow of the Bach Aria Institute in Stonybrook, NY, and received a Rotary Scholarship for organ study with the late Anton Heiller in Vienna, Austria.  She has served as clinician and recitalist for many professional conferences, including ALCM, AGO, and PAM. Ms. Jowers has performed twice at the Piccolo Spoleto Festival in Charleston, SC, and has been heard on NPR’s Pipedreams. In retirement, when not teaching, she and her husband Paul Weber enjoy traveling the world, and spending time with their three adult children and six grandchildren.