ABOUT
Mike, Grace, and Tess Keyes are 'Keyes & Strings' - an experienced and elegant piano and violin trio that will be the perfect complement to any gathering!
We are based in Spokane, Washington.
Tess Keyes
Tess is a senior at Gonzaga Preparatory School and has studied violin with the Spokane Symphony Concertmaster since she was 2012. Tess is a former member of the Spokane Strings Youth Orchestra. She regularly provided music at weekly masses when she was a student at Cataldo Catholic School. She has played at a variety of venues throughout the city for liturgies, memorial services, and similar gatherings. In addition to her violin studies, she is an avid soccer player. She plays club soccer for Spokane Sounders, and is a three-year letterman on her high school soccer team.
Grace Keyes
Grace is a Junior at the University of Notre Dame where she is studying business analytics in the Mendoza College of Business. Prior to her college studies, Grace also studied violin with Maestro Mateusz Wolski, the Concertmaster of the Spokane Symphony. She is a previous member of the Spokane Youth Philharmonic Orchestra and regularly performed at the historic Fox Theater in Spokane. Grace competed in Musicfest Northwest every spring at Gonzaga University and performed at a variety of different venues including St. Augustine's Parish, Gonzaga Prep, Auntie's Bookstore, the Spokane Club, the Historic Davenport Hotel, St. Al's at Gonzaga University, the GU "Kennel" (home of the Gonzaga Bulldogs), and the Manito Country Club. She has also been a volunteer violin teach with Quarantunes.com, an organization started during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Mike Keyes
Mike received his college degree in piano performance from Loyola University in New Orleans. After graduating from Loyola, Mike studied at the Tbilisi State Conservatoire in the former Soviet Republic of Georgia under Maestro Nodar Gabunia. Mike and his daughters, Grace and Tess, enjoy playing at weddings, masses, memorial services, and other special occasions.