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Heidi Lowy began her studies at the Juilliard School where she was a student of Leland Thompson. She graduated from the Oberlin Conservatory with a Bachelor of Music as a student of John Perry and received a Masters of Music and Distinguished Performer's Certificate while a student of Cecile Genhart at the Eastman School of Music. She attended L'ecole d'Arts Americaines in Fountainebleau, France, where she was a student of Nadia Boulanger and played Mozart and Ravel in the Master Class of Robert Casaesus. She was awarded the Wuslin Fellowship for chamber music at Tanglewood Music Festival. There followed her study with Leon Fleisher.

Heidi Lowy has performed at Carnegie Recital Hall, Steinway Hall and Lincoln Center. Additional performances included recitals at the Chrysler Museum in Norfolk, Virginia and the Rochester and New Jersey Philharmonic Orchestras. A review of her performance of the Schumann Piano Concerto stated... "Ms. Lowy has great technical facilities, which always serve her for musical purposes... her playing is poetic, sincere and strong at the same time..." Gustav Meier, conductor.

The first six piano sonatas are generally referred to as the "Munich" sonatas. Of these, the initial three, K.279, 280 and 281, are each in three movements, the customary Fast-Slow-Fast format, with the first movement in Sonata-Allegro form made up of two main themes with a development section in between between; the second movement simple and songful; the third either another Sonata-Allegro or a Rondo, the latter a form which Mozart more or less invented and which was distinguished by a recurrent unifying theme separated by contrasting episodes.