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Karen Trydahl - Heart & Soul Karen Trydahl received her bachelor's degree in Music Education from the University of North Dakota. After teaching in public school for two years, she changed careers and came to California to work as a computer programmer for Control Data Corporation. With the end of the mainframe era, Karen moved into bookkeeping as a way to work a shorter week -- leaving more time for musical activities! Karen studied piano with Sari Biro in San Francisco. In addition to accompanying Heart & Soul, she works with her church choir. Accompanying is really her first love, and she is pleased to be able to be part of both choruses. She lives in San Jose with her cat.

		Kathleen Cook - Foster City Community Chorus Kathleen began her musical journey literally under the piano bench where she would nap as a small infant while her father played and taught piano lessons. She began her formal piano study at age 5 and began performing in church at the age of 10. She accompanied her school choir for the first time at the age of 12. Church music performance and choral accompanying have been a central part of Ms. Cook’s musical journey ever since. Kathleen discovered the enchantments of the harp in the mid 1990s, and her journey expanded to include study of the pedal harp (along with piano, voice, and music theory) with Paul Hurst in 1997. Currently, Ms. Cook combines a career of piano teaching, piano and harp performing for church services and special events, and church choral accompanying. She is delighted to join the musical adventure of the Foster City Community Chorus. Kathleen and her husband Ken, who has joined the chorus as a singer, live in Santa Cruz.

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