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| About Gene Lowinger |
| I discovered the joy of playing the fiddle (violin) while I was in college, and from then on music became the overriding passion of my life. I, along with David Grisman, formed a band called the New York Ramblers, which, in 1964, won the grand prize in the band competition at Union Grove, North Carolina. After graduating college I went to Nashville to play fiddle with Bill Monroe – the Father of Bluegrass Music – on the Grand Ole Opry. After my internship with Big Mon I returned to the New York area to pursue my violin studies with the world famous violin pedagogue Raphael Bronstein. I studied photography at the New School in New York, and as a documentary photographer worked in Europe, the Middle East, and Russia. In the course of photographing musicians at their vocation, my work evolved into a dialogue that looks to capture people engaged in activities that define their lives. I currently teach music and photography at my home in New Jersey, and play violin in local New Jersey orchestras. I have had several music books published – Bluegrass Fiddle, Oak Publications; Bluegrass Fiddling, G. Schirmer; and Jazz Violin, G. Schirmer. I have written numerous articles for Bluegrass Unlimited, Fiddler Magazine, and Frets Magazine. My early photography work has been exhibited in a number of group shows in SoHo, New York, had current work shown in a number of venues in the New York metropolitan area, and most recently had a solo show at the Hoboken Almanac Gallery in Hoboken, NJ. My photographs have appeared in Bluegrass Unlimited, Strings Magazine, and the Journal of Country Music. The University of Illinois Press publishes my most recent book, I Hear A Voice Calling, which includes a collection of photographs of Bill Monroe. |
| About the photographs |
| The photographs of me that appear on this page and the Contact page of this site were taken by Panos Lambrou and used with his permission. A collection of photographs from the book I Hear A Voice Calling is available for rental as a gallery show. For more information please contact me at the email address on the contact page of this site. All photographs on this site are protected by copyright. Purchases of prints do not imply any rights of usage. The available sizes indicated for each print indicates the overall size of the paper. The actual image size will vary, and be adjusted to what is most appropriate for the image and paper size. All prints are made with archival pigments on semigloss paper. Silver gelatin prints are available for selected images. Inquiries should be made through the info email on the contact page. |
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