Lowell Dykstra composes, mostly on commission, chamber music, choral music and works for orchestra. His music has been performed by the Netherlands Ballet Orchestra, the North Netherlands Orchestra, the North Holland Philharmonic Orchestra, Youth Orchestra Netherlands and various choirs such as the Netherlands Chamber Choir, the Netherlands Student Chamber Choir and Studium Chorale and musicians such as Trio Ibert, Syrinx Saxophone Quartet, Maarten Koningsberger and Kelvin Grout and the violin-piano duo Tjeerd Top and Mariken Zandvliet.