Keith Scribner founded Scribner Investment Companies over 30 years ago in Spokane, Washington, where he and his wife currently serve as principals, contributing to the local community and arts organizations. The Spokane Symphony, the region's largest performing arts institution, operates educational programs that reach over 30,000 students annually and partners with Carnegie Hall's Link Up program to provide hands-on music courses for elementary school students. Through their partnership, the symphony supports local music teachers and invites students to perform at concerts after completing the Link Up curriculum.

2.  Keith Scribner founded Scribner Investment
Companies in Spokane, Washington, more than 30
years ago. He and his wife Leilani Scribner currently
serve as the company’s principal's. Along with Keith
Scribner's extensive experience as a commercial real
estate investor in the Eastern Washington region, his
long-standing history of contributing to the local
community through his support of cultural
organizations. Among the recipients of his
contributions to resident institutions of the arts have
been the Spokane Symphony, which performs at the
Martin Woldson Theater at The Fox.

3.  Led by music director Eckart Preu and resident
conductor Morihiko Nakahara, the Spokane
Symphony is a nonprofit 70-piece orchestra
and the Inland Pacific Northwest region’s
largest performing arts institution. As part of its
mission of preserving and expanding
appreciation for orchestral music, the
symphony operates several educational
programs that offer services such as school
performances and musical instruction to
students of all ages. Throughout the Inland
Northwest, the symphony’s education
programs reach over 30,000 students, teachers,
and parents each year.

4.  As part of its educational initiative, the Spokane
Symphony participates in Carnegie Hall’s Weill Music
Institute Link Up elementary education program for
students ranging from the third to the fifth grade.
Established in 2003, Link Up partners Carnegie Hall
with professional, university, and community
orchestras across the United States in order to provide
a hands-on music course at local schools. Free
resources provided by Carnegie to school music
teachers include a download of the Link Up
curriculum, teaching resources, and workbooks for
each student. The Link Up curriculum teaches
students to play the soprano recorder and sing,
notate and read music, as well as compose their own
pieces and perform improvisations.

5.  As Carnegie’s Link Up partner orchestra in
the Spokane area, the symphony offers
workshops and lends direct support to
music teachers in implementing the
program. Once students have completed
the Link Up course, they are invited to
attend a concert with the Spokane
Symphony at The Fox. During the concert,
students play their recorders under the
direction of the conductor and in unison
with the orchestra.