Staff
Marlette Buchanan
Executive Director marlette@seattlemusicpartners.org “I was born with music inside me. Music was one of my parts. Like my ribs,...my heart. It was a force already within me when I arrived on the scene. It was a necessity for me — like food or water.” – Ray Charles |
Aja Utsugi
Program Director aja@seattlemusicpartners.org "Music can name the un-nameable and communicate the unknowable." – Leonard Bernstein |
Ward Brannman
Music Education Director ward@seattlemusicpartners.org “Some people think music education is a privilege, but I think it’s essential to being human.” – Jewel |
Laura Shapiro
Program Coordinator/Americorps Volunteer coordinator@seattlemusicpartners.org "We’re speaking out against the abuse of power because we believe silence is our enemy, and sound is our weapon.” – Janelle Monáe |
Emily Willick
Program Consultant emily@seattlemusicpartners.org “This will be our reply to violence: to make music more intensely, more beautifully, more devotedly than ever before." — Leonard Bernstein |
