Marilyn Lowe, who has taught piano for more than 40 years, has used her experiences and knowledge to create a non-traditional piano method, Music Moves for Piano. She based this method on Edwin E. Gordon's theories of audiation (Music Learning Theory), and the piano series is published with Gordon's cooperation. Other influences include the techniques and theories of Carl Orff, Shinichi Suzuki, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, Zoltan Kodaly, and Dorothy Taubman as well as the musical thinking of Nadia Boulanger, Menahem Pressler, Walter Robert, Murray Baylor, and Guy Duckworth. Lowe has been using this approach successfully with her students since 1992.

Lowe has performed as a piano and organ soloist, as pianist with the Fine Arts Trio in Columbia, Missouri, and as an ensemble player with many college and university faculty members. She taught at Christian College (now Columbia College) in Columbia, Missouri and Evangel College and Southwest Missouri State University (now Missouri State University) in Springfield, Missouri. She is a church organist and teaches piano to students of all ages. Her students continue to win high local and national honors in performance and composition.

Active in local and state music organizations, she was a founding member of the Springfield Area Arts Council and the Springfield Piano Teachers Forum and was a member of the Springfield Symphony Orchestra Board of Directors for 14 years. Lowe served two years as Convention Chair and two years as President for the Missouri Music Teachers Association. She has made presentations on the topics of composition, improvisation, and audiation at local, state, and national conferences, including the World Piano Pedagogy Conference and Music Teachers National Association Conference as well as in Europe. She was honored by the Missouri Music Teachers Association as 2007 "Teacher of the Year." 

Lowe's academic credits include degrees in liberal arts and piano (cum laude, Phi Beta Kappa) from Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, and a master's degree with distinction, in piano, from Indiana University, Bloomington where she was a student of Menahem Pressler. Lowe studied organ and church music as a graduate student. Lowe received the prestigious University Fellowship for doctoral study in music theory at Indiana University. She was awarded membership in Mortar Board and Pi Kappa Lambda and is a member of Sigma Alpha Iota. Lowe has four children and 11 grandchildren and lives in Springfield, Missouri. 

Edwin E. Gordon is one of five great 20th century innovators in music education. The other four are Carl Orff, Shinichi Suzuki, Emile Jaques-Dalcroze, and Zoltan Kodaly. These music educators emphasize that music is an aural art, not a visual process. Because music is a listening and a performing art, it cannot be learned intellectually nor can it be learned through music notation. Marilyn Lowe created Music Moves for Piano solely to apply Gordon's theories to the teaching of piano. Musicianship and musical skills are developed through listening, singing, movement, pattern instruction, performing, and improvising.

Gordon is known throughout the world as a preeminent researcher, teacher, author, editor, and lecturer in the field of music education. In addition to advising doctoral candidates in music education, Gordon has devoted many years to teaching preschool-aged children. Through extensive research, Gordon has made major contributions to the field of music education in such areas as the study of music aptitudes, stages and types of audiation, music learning theory, and rhythm in movement and music. 

Edwin E. Gordon has devoted his lifetime to the research and development of a Music Learning Theory, also known as Theories of Audiation. MLT addresses some of the problems with music education that musical thinkers such as Dalcroze, Kodaly, Orff, and Suzuki have pointed out. Music Moves for Piano is a groundbreaking piano method that combines Gordon's MLT with Dorothy Taubman's ideas for developing efficient playing skills.

Dr. Gordon lives in Columbia, South Carolina with his wife Carol. He continues his research, writing, and lecturing about how we best learn music.