About

Kathen has retired from the public schools as General music teacher and Choral conductor. She now teaches privately in her home studio, HarpLark Music Center.  

Kathen is a classically trained soprano, vioinist and Irish harpist. She performs in the Kairos Consort, Cappella Festiva and Christ the King Church, as well as for private occassions.  

Kathen is currently writing and publishing her fantasy series calledThe Blue Thistle Chronicles. The heroine of these time travel novels spans the centuries to find  solutions to an ever evolving world.  

Kathen has been a bookkeeper for various nonprofits for over ten years. She works with online Quickbooks.

Kathen grew up in a publishing family and naturally gravitates to this industry. She works with clients, interviewing, editing and writing memoirs, poetry collections, and essay compilations, then  uses online platforms to create either paperback or hard cover editions.  

Kathen Cowan

Kathen grew up in a magical life. Leaving the U.S at age five, she lived two years in Salzburg, Austria at the Schloss Leopoldskron, a roccoco style palace built in 1736. Her father recruited students to the Salzburg Seminar, an American school overseas that was housed at the castle and her mother was Librarian. Two years after the family moved back to the U.S. the movie, "The Sound of Music" was filmed on the castle grounds.

Kathen spent her days running through Hazelnut groves and up secret Library staircases. She skated and swam in the very lake that Julie Andrews later fell into and played on the patio where the Captain and the Countess had breakfast.

It was in Salzburg that her love of music began while listening to Oompah bands and international quartets that would come perform at the castle.