Lafayette Choir HAS
​A New Piano!

We Have Reached OUr Goal!

Many thanks to our outstanding supporters and partners in the arts for helping us make this dream a reality.  Because of outstanding support from our current families and alumni we exceeded our goal and were able to purchase a brand new 7-foot Boston grand piano.  Our new Boston piano is recital-quality instrument designed by Steinway and Sons.  The choirs have been enjoying the new instrument and we have plans to share the instrument with our piano majors who have scheduled upcoming piano recitals in the choir room.

As a commemorative celebration of our new instrument we organized a recording session this summer featuring outstanding current student performers and accomplished alumni to dedicate our new instrument. Enjoy the tracks below as a small thank you for your support of this worthy project.  

About the Performers

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SARAH BYRD is a senior SCAPA vocal major and pre-engineering program student.  She has been playing piano since the age of three and currently studies with University of Kentucky piano professor, Dr. Raleigh Dailey.  As a sophomore Sarah was selected to attend the Kentucky Center Governor’s School for the Arts as a pianist in the instrumental music program.  As a collaborative pianist, Sarah has been an accompanist for weddings, church services, Lafayette High School choir concerts, and instrumental juries at the University of Kentucky.  Her repertoire includes a wide range of styles from classical to jazz.  Sarah was selected to be the jazz pianist for the Jazz All-Stars of Central Kentucky for three years and recorded “Summertime” for a Creative Lexington promotional video.  Sarah plans to double major in vocal music performance and biology in college.
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CARSON CROVO is a piano performance major at the University of Kentucky. He has been studying classical piano for thirteen years and is a graduate of the SCAPA Lafayette Piano Program. Carson hopes to perform with other musicians as a collaborative pianist and chamber musician. Carson enjoyed singing in the Lafayette Choir Program and thanks the wonderful choir directors for the opportunity to experience their choir’s new piano.
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​BEN HENAULT has been playing piano and composing since he was 4 years old, and playing percussion since he was 9. He has studied piano under Julie Jones and percussion under Francisco Perez. His compositions are heavily influenced by contemporary composers such as Nils Frahm and Olafur Arnalds. Ben would like to pursue music composition with a focus in music technology in college and as a career.
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GRANT HOLCOMB is a native of Lexington, Kentucky, and is a 2017 graduation of Lafayette High School.  Grant is currently a freshman at the University of Kentucky where he is majoring in Arts Administration and is an organ student of Dr. Schuyler Robinson.  Grant is lucky to have also been taught and mentored by Lisa Hall, Michael Rintamaa, and Dr. Kate Covington, to name a few.  Grant is currently serving a three year term as a Member-at-Large of the Lexington chapter of the American Guild of Organists.  In addition to occasional service playing, Grant has been featured as an organ recitalist in the Lexington AGO chapter's annual "Christmas Pipes" concert.
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NATHAN RAYENS is from Lexington, Kentucky, and in his third year at Miami University of Ohio. He is majoring in Piano Performance, Mechanical Engineering, and Manufacturing Engineering. In Lexington, Nathan was in the piano studios of Dr. Svetlana Alkhasova and Mrs. Celia Shlosman. At Miami University, he studies piano with Dr. Siok Lian Tan. Nathan enjoys accompanying vocal and instrumental students and has participated in ensembles on campus such as the Men's Glee Club and the Wind Ensemble. After graduation from Miami, he is planning to enroll in a doctoral program to further his engineering studies.

About Lafayette Choir

​The Lafayette Choir is one of the largest and most distinguished choral programs in Kentucky.  We serve over 200 students in six choirs and house the School for Creative and Performing Arts (SCAPA) magnet program.  More
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