| A union member as a teenager, Kathy Cammett performed
in many bands, shows and orchestras. She trained for clarinet,
saxophone and voice at Cincinnati’s College-Conservatory
of Music and has been involved in many facets of the arts
since.
She performed 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.
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 taught voice for the Musical Arts Center, after
learning much under master technician Karl Resnik, at
the time working with Disney World entertainers. She
now runs Golden Voice Studio at Cab Calloway School
of the Arts and teaches courses on auditioning, diction,
voice, opera and the music industry. She has overseen,
coached, managed, directed and produced hundreds of
voices, roles, auditions, competitions, bands and shows
from rock to opera. Her students have appeared professionally,
performed on a national level, been accepted into competitive
arts programs and gained professional management. In
the current music scene, she produced original music
shows for several years at Kahunaville.
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. She has worked
with most of the major performing arts organizations
in Cincinnati, OperaDelaware, Opera Company of Philadelphia
and currently serves on the board of City Theater Company.
She laughs all day in her work and is lucky and blessed
to call great people her students and friends.
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