Pianist Raye Lynn Mercerholds a Bachelor of Arts Degree from Middlebury College. She studied at the Vienna International Music Center in Vienna, Austria with Maria-Regina Seidlhofer. Raye Lynn is founder and director of the Franklin School for the Performing Arts, where Electric Youth is trained,  offering programs to students of all ages and levels in Music, Dance and Drama. At FSPA, she serves as Administrator and Director of the school’s musical theater performing troupes and touring ensembles. Raye Lynn is also Executive Director of the Franklin Performing Arts Company and heads the New England Center for the  Performing Arts project currently developing a regional performing arts center in Franklin, MA.