As a teenaged union member, Kathy Cammett performed in many bands, shows and orchestras. She trained at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music for clarinet, saxophone and voice. Additional classes and training were with Metropolitan Opera artists John Alexander, Italo Tajo, Joan Dornemann, Stanford Olsen and Carlos Serrano and Richard Raub of The Academy of Vocal Arts. She has been involved in many facets of the arts since.
Performances have been with the Cincinnati Symphony, Cincinnati Opera, The Cincinnati May Festival and New Orleans Symphony. She is fortunate to have worked under the batons most notably of James Levine, James Conlon, Keith Lockhart, Marco Armiliato, Erich Kunzel and Jesus Lopez-Cobos.
She has overseen, coached, managed and produced hundreds of voices, roles, audtions, bands and shows. Her students have appeared in professional productions, performed on a national level, been accepted into competitive arts programs and colleges and gained professional management. She taught voice for the Musical Arts Center, after learning much under master technician Karl Resnik, at the time working with Disney World entertainers. In the current music scene, she produced original music shows for several years at Kahunaville. Currently, Kathy teaches courses on auditioning, diction, voice, opera and the music industry as Golden Voice Studio at Cab Calloway School of the Arts and works with OperaDelaware's Youth Opera as vocal coach and music director.
Behind the scenes, Kathy has worked with a variety of arts organizations and chaired many fundraising events. She has been an innovator in designing venues to educate and attract young audiences to the arts and has worked with most of the major performing arts organizations in Cincinnati, OperaDelaware, Opera Company of Philadelphia and has served on the boards of OperaDelaware Guild, City Theater Company and Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
She laughs all day in her work and is lucky and blessed to call great people her students and friends.