KATHY LORIMER-COWAN

Kathy Lorimer-Cowan was a K-12 music and theater instructor and high school choral director for the Atascadero Unified School District for twenty years, in addition to being the founder and director of the Atascadero Summer Performing Arts Institute, a musical theater program for students ages ten to eighteen. She holds a Bachelor of Arts degree in Music, a K-12 teaching credential in Music, and a Master of Arts in Music with an emphasis in choral conducting. In the Bay Area she has taught musical theater, voice, and piano at the Spindrift School of Performing Arts in Pacifica, and served as the assistant conductor for both the Chamber Singers and Women's Choir, and was the founder and conductor of the Men's Choir at San Francisco State University.

Kathy is married to Linwood, who works as a chief engineer for the Hilton Corporation. Between the two of them they have six grown daughters. Four living in Maine, one currently teaching English in Costa Rica, and one living in San Francisco preparing to begin her PhD.

February 2007