Kay Collier McLaughlin, PhD is an organizational development and leadership consultant, author and speaker, principal of Transformative Leadership Consulting. “Formed” as a musician and lover of the arts through the Central Kentucky Youth Orchestra, the orchestra program at Henry Clay High School and the Music Department at the University of Kentucky, her first opera experience …
Keith Key is the senior advisor for Key and Associates with Merrill Lynch. His practice focuses on offering a comprehensive approach to managing wealth that begins with beginning to know a client and the client’s family, financial situation and what matters most to them. As a CERTIFIED FINANCIAL PLANNER (CFP) and a Certified Portfolio Manager …
Connie Jennings agrees with one of her favorite poets who said “music does what words wish they could.” She feels, as many of us do, that there is a power in music that is not easily found elsewhere. This power dissolves culture, language and social divides. Music has been a fact in Connie’s life since childhood …
Ed Henry is a native Kentuckian who holds two degrees from the University of Kentucky – a Bachelor’s Degree from the College of Arts and Sciences and a J.D. from the UK College of Law. Ed and his wife Geri enjoy the UKOT performances, and he considers it genius that he was invited to be on …
Mark Fritz is an ENT doctor who joined his practice to help deal with voice and swallowing issues. He has always enjoyed music and the opera. His mother was a music teacher, and he grew up playing the piano. His first Lexington Opera experience was attending the ENCORE program back in ‘normal’ 2019. It was …
Jeanie Dorton retired from the Big Sandy Technical and Community College as the Community and Legislative Liaison and Manager of Advancement. After graduating from Paintsville High School, she attended Prestonsburg Community College, where she received an Associate in Arts Degree as well as an Associate in Science. She later graduated from Morehead State University with …
Ann Elizabeth is a realtor with United Real Estate in Louisville. In addition to working with realtors and buyers, she enjoys mentoring and coaching agents and teaching weekly tech classes. She serves on the Greater Louisville Association of Realtors Board of Directors, and the Kentucky Realtors Board of Directors. She was honored to receive the President’s …
Ginny Arnett grew up in Williamsburg, Kentucky in a musical household, singing from a very young age. She studied piano in the Cumberland College Piano Preparatory Program through high school and was in the band and choir. She attended her first ‘live’ opera experience – Carmen, as a freshman vocal major at the University of …
One could describe Everett McCorvey as Tenor, Impresario, Teacher, Conductor, as you would find in his biography link below. To OperaLex, he is known as its Artistic Director and to the University and to his students and colleagues, as the Director of the University of Kentucky Opera Theatre program. His success is unmatched at building …
Jan is a proud Hoosier, having been born and raised in southern Indiana, and a graduate of Hanover College with degrees in psychology and religion. After college Jan moved to upstate New York, where she began working as Director of Christian Education at the Danville Presbyterian Church. It was while in New York that she …
