Johnaye Kendrick, Composer-in-Residence

Key to Change’s newest Composer-in-Residence featured in The Seattle Medium

Johnaye Kendrick is featured as our Composer-in-Residence for 2026-27 Key to Change Composer-in-Residence, Johnaye Kendrick, was featured on December 3, 2025 by The Seattle Medium. The Seattle Medium is an African-American founded paper that has been serving Seattle, Washington since 1970. In the piece, Dr. Quinton Morris and Johnaye both expressed their excitement for her appointment beginning next month at the start of our winter term. She will be working ...
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Johnaye Kendrick, Composer-in-Residence

Key to Change’s newest Composer-in-Residence featured in The Seattle Medium

Johnaye Kendrick is featured as our Composer-in-Residence for 2026-27 Key to Change Composer-in-Residence, Johnaye Kendrick, was featured on December 3, 2025 by The Seattle Medium. ...
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Award-winning violinist Melissa White visits students for a special masterclass

Melissa White instructing our student, Siddharth Siravara, on posture during her masterclass Throughout the year, Key to Change provides special masterclasses with world-class guest artists ...
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Key to Change receives ArtsFund’s Community Accelerator Grant for third straight year

For the third year in a row, Key to Change is proud to receive the Community Accelerator Grant from ArtsFund and Allen Family Philanthropies (formerly ...
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Case for support: our new $25 program

Give now Every student deserves to explore their passions, express themselves, and develop life skills that last   We all know that today’s public schools ...
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KtC students attend selective university summer program

Left: Ciku and Mason, back from their amazing trip! Right: Prof. Arnaud Ghillebaert, their instructor. Our viola students Mason Nguyen and Ciku Maina earned scholarships ...
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Faculty Spotlight: Dr. Natasha Kubit hits the ground running

Just one month into her new role, Dr. Natasha Kubit, Key to Change’s first full-time music instructor, is already making a big impact in our ...
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Harvard dean kicks off new college and career speaker series

On July 24, we launched Inspiring Possibilities, Key to Change’s new college and career speaker series, for a packed house of students, families, and community ...
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