Bailey Graff

Bailey Graff is a senior at Jenks High School. She is a member of the school’s show choir program and is in the Trojanaire vocal ensemble. Ms. Graff is a five-time Oklahoma All-State honor choir member, including the Oklahoma Choir Directors Association junior high mixed choir and jazz choir and the Oklahoma Music Educators Association treble and mixed choirs. Ms. Graff has performed in many musicals and serves as her church’s youth praise and worship leader. She plans to attend Southern Nazarene University to pursue a degree in music education with vocal emphasis.

Abbygail Tai

Abbygail Tai is a senior at Edmond North High School. She began piano lessons at age five and violin at nine, studying with Doris Morris for eight years. Ms. Tai has served as concertmaster for the Oklahoma Summer Arts Institute Orchestra, North Central Honor Orchestra, Edmond North Orchestra, and Oklahoma Youth Orchestra. She is a recipient of the Louise Francelia Waldorf Prize for Excellence in Solo Performance and has consistently ranked among the top violinists in the Oklahoma Music Educators Association All-­State Orchestra. She was a founding member of the Simply Strings Quartet and has performed across Oklahoma, including collaborations with the Calico Quartet and appearances in the Brightmusic chamber series. She performs with her church praise team, supports PEO, mentors younger musicians, and serves in leadership roles in her school orchestra. Ms. Tai enjoys cooking, recreational basketball, and volunteering. She is deeply grateful to her family and hopes to pursue a music degree at a university and a lifelong career in violin performance.

Lezleigh Holloway

Lezleigh Holloway is a sophomore at the University of Tulsa, majoring in vocal music education. She participates in the TU Cappella Chamber Singers, wind ensemble, marching band, and basketball band. She is an active member and treasurer of Sigma Gamma Chapter of Sigma Alpha Iota International Music Fraternity and is in the National Association for Music Education and on the TU School of Music advisory board. Ms. Holloway is a scholarship singer at First Presbyterian Church in Tulsa and sings in the Chancel Choir and Gloria Women’s Choir and occasionally as a soloist. After earning a bachelor of music education degree, Ms. Holloway hopes to become a choir or band director in secondary schools in Oklahoma.

Katherine Kimbrough

Katherine Kimbrough is a coloratura soprano originally from Columbia, South Carolina. She has performed a wide variety of music from opera to folk. Current engagements include Servilia in La Clemenza di Tito with the University of Oklahoma Opera and soprano soloist with Northeastern State University in Davide Penitente. Ms. Kimbrough holds a bachelor’s degree in music from the University of South Carolina. She is pursuing her master’s degree in opera at the University of Oklahoma.

Chloe Romack

Chloe Romack is a first-year master of music student at Oklahoma State University and is a graduate teaching assistant member of the OSU Graduate Brass Quintet. Romack performs with the OSU Symphony Orchestra, wind ensemble, and jazz ensemble and was a finalist in the OSU concerto competition.

Jordan Tolleson

Jordan Tolleson is a junior music performance major at Oklahoma State University. She has been a finalist for the OSU concerto competition and the Big 12 Trombone Conference bass trombone solo competition. Ms. Tolleson was recently selected bass trombonist for the Colorado College Summer Music Festival with full scholarship. As a high school senior, she was selected for the Macy’s All-American Marching Band and performed in the Thanksgiving Day parade.

Lin Tao Lee

Lin Tao Lee is pursuing a bachelor of music degree in performance at the University of Central Oklahoma. He previously earned a bachelor’s degree in computer science in his home country, Malaysia. In 2025, Lee was awarded first prize in Category A of the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association young artist piano competition. His repertoire encompasses major works of classical piano literature, with particular affinity for composers of the Romantic era. Lee also pursues his interests in jazz studies and music therapy, reflecting a broader artistic perspective on performance and the role of music in human experience.

Alayna Tolbert

Alayna Tolbert is a twenty-one-year-old pianist, artist, writer, teacher, black belt, and composer. She is in her junior year at Oklahoma State University as a piano performance major with a double minor in theory and composition and creative writing. She performed twice at Carnegie Hall in 2023, participated in a New York Philharmonic internship in 2024, and won the Boh Moscovsky Outstanding Freshman Award. Ms. Tolbert won the OSU concerto competition in 2024 and performed with the OSU Symphony Orchestra. She won second place for the Patti Johnson Wilson Scholarship from Hyechka Club in 2024 and first place in the Oklahoma Music Teachers Association competition in 2023 and 2025. After graduating from college in 2027, Ms. Tolbert intends to expand her private studio and continue to participate in piano competitions.