Lydia Sprouts – Executive Director
Crestone, Co

Falling asleep every night as a child to the country radio stations in Arizona, Lydia Sprouts developed an ear and a passion and a relationship with music. She has taken classes on and off through out her lifetime including piano, mandolin, voice, & guitar. After landing in Boulder County, Colorado she was found the mandolin, and thrived in the bluegrass community there. She spent 12 years on the Front Range of Colorado producing events, festivals, and writing original music in touring band, Pioneer Mother. She moved to Crestone in March of 2020 and wants to fill the need for music education in the valley. She has a plan to use Crestone Performances to grow the community musical literacy, and enhance musicianship for youth and adults alike. And most importantly share in the joy and togetherness that music brings.

Peter Van Horn – President
Crestone, CO

Peter Van Horn is a native of Canton, Ohio and graduated from Kent State University with his bachelor's degree in Music Technology : Audio Recording. After college he worked at Sweetwater Sound in Fort Wayne, IN doing sales and consulting for 3 years. Peter moved out to Colorado in 2015 and lived in Denver for a year. While there he was employed by Rhino Staging working live events in venue's such as Pepsi Center, Fiddlers Green, Broncos Mile High stadium and Dicks Sporting Good Park. In 2016 Peter moved to Crestone and taught music at Moffat K-12 school for 4 years. He is actively involved in recording/producing local groups and teaches privately.

Daya Scheide - Vice President
Crestone, Co

Jeff “Daya” Scheide is a teacher, musician, and storyteller who spent his years traveling the Americas and collecting songs, until he found his home in Crestone in 2011. As a teacher at the Crestone Charter School, he always starts the morning singing, and keeps his guitar close at hand all day long. He joined the CPI board of directors in 2024, as part of his mission to spread the love of music, art, and poetry in the hearts of children in the San Luis Valley and beyond.  When he’s not teaching kids, you’ll find him playing bass with local bands like Pioneer Mother and the Chronic Joy Collective. 

Alixe Landry - Board Member
Crestone, Co

Alixe is a late-blooming musician who had early exposure to music in the form of piano lessons as a child and playing guitar as a teen. It was many years later when her full passion for music ignited and she picked up the bass guitar at the age of 50. Her skills rapidly improved thanks to the guidance of her mentors at Swallow Hill Music in Denver and the life-changing experiences obtained during her annual visits to the Victor Wooten Center for Music and Nature in TN. Six years into her adult musical journey, she started a 10-piece funk band in Denver, with the goal of giving other intermediate level musicians a safe space to explore music together. By the time Covid hit two years later, she had purchased a keyboard with the goal of exploring music theory concepts she had been exposed to at Vixcamps in TN. With Covid putting an end to the funk band, she turned her attention to the keyboard. She discovered — because of the knowledge she had absorbed playing the bass — she was able to create music without having to read sheet music. This sparked her passion for teaching music as she wanted to share these ideas with others to help get them started on their musical journey. Since moving to Crestone in 2022 she has been the bass player for the Groove Wranglers and is currently playing bass with the Kosmos Band and other local bands, as well as teaching bass and piano.