
Ms. Cammett has overseen, coached, managed, produced and directed hundreds of voices, roles, auditions, 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 has performed in many bands, shows and orchestras since becoming a union member as a teenager. 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 attended Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory of Music for clarinet, saxophone and voice. Additional masterclasses, lessons and coaching were with Karl Resnik, Blythe Walker, Bard and Jan Suverkrop, Francis Greep, Metropolitan Opera artists John Alexander, Joan Dornemann, Stanford Olsen, Carlos Serrano and Richard Raub of The Academy of Vocal Arts.
In addition to college coursework, she has had 13+ years of private voice training and coaching. As well, she passed the Praxis I and Praxis II Subject Assessments, required of all teachers for certification, in the areas of both Music and Theater.
As a conductor and director, she has led children through adults in choral groups, shows and opera from High School Musical to Evita to Dido and Aeneas. She has taught courses on auditioning, diction, voice, opera and the music industry at OperaDelaware and Cab Calloway School of the Arts.
Behind the scenes, Kathy has worked with a variety of arts organizations and chaired numerous fundraising events. She has been an innovator in designing programs 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. This past year she served as Executive Director at CabSummer (Cab Calloway Summer School of the Arts) and worked with OperaDelaware’s Young Artist Training program. Currently, she is working with World Café Live at the Queen.
She laughs all day in her work and is lucky and blessed to call great people her students and friends.
