Keryn Wouden has always loved making music. Growing up in the Midwest, she was actively involved in various music lessons. When at a young age she decided with dogged determination to play the harp, her parents were as skeptical as any parent might be when a child takes up a new interest and requests a “toy” that costs as much as a small SUV. However, Keryn was relentless and has tenaciously pursued her dream to play classical harp for more than 10 years. She often says that playing music is as important to her as having air to breathe.

Along with Keryn’s impressive academic career at Northwestern University(MM 2013) and Chapman University (BA Summa Cum Laud, 2011) in Orange, California, she also spent four years working for Salvi Harps (North and South American showroom) gaining an intimate knowledge of the harp. Her extensive resume really starts when she became the principal harpist at the Kansas All-State Symphony Orchestra as a sophomore in high school and won the first place in the Midwest Harp Festival in 2004. Other notable performances include Debussy’s Dances Sacree in 2006 at Pittsburg University and Handel’s Concerto in Bb at the 2007 ASTA National Orchestra Festival. In 2008, she won grand prize at the Orange County Harp Society Scholarship Competition, and has performed throughout the Midwest and West with organizations such as the Orange County Philharmonic Society, Sundance Summer Theater, Anaheim Ballet Company, Lake Forest Civic Orchestra, and Kenosha Symphony. In 2012, Keryn premiered Eliza Brown’s new concerto for harp, A Tune Refracted, with the Contemporary Music Ensemble at Northwestern University, and her Masters recital was featured by Northwestern's Journalism School.

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