Educator.  Musician. Conductor. Composer.

Erin Keeton-Howard is a Seattle-based educator, musician, and composer. Currently, Erin serves on the performing arts faculty at The Northwest School, a liberal arts college preparatory school in downtown Seattle. The 2020-2021 school year marks her twelfth year of teaching in the classroom and twenty-third year playing trumpet. Over the last decade she has taught middle school, high school, college, and adult bands in St. Louis, Kansas City, and Seattle. Erin feels passionately about not only teaching music, but teaching THROUGH music.

While teaching, Erin maintains an active role in community music. Currently Erin is the director of the Seattle Symphonic Band at North Seattle College and co-director/founder of FORMATION Wind Band. FORMATION is a women's wind ensemble committed to empowering women to create, collaborate, and build community together. Additionally, Erin is the founder of the Give Back Brass Band- a New Orleans style brass band that aims to provide joyful live music experiences to communities with limited access (i.e. retirement centers, juvenile detention centers, homeless shelters, and food banks). You can learn more about these groups on the links page!

Erin graduated cum laude with a B.S. in Music Education from the University of Missouri and holds a M.A. in Music Education with emphasis in Conducting from the University of Washington. A St. Louis native, Erin fell in love with the PNW when she moved here in 2014 to attend the University of Washington (Go Dawgs!). Erin resides in Shoreline with her wife Felicia and her two lovable pups, Tucker and Edna Boone.

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