CARMEN ARTIS studied formally at the Peabody Conservatory of Music in Baltimore, MD. and continued private studies with internationally renowned mezzo-soprano, Antonia Kitsopolous. Her extensive credits in opera, oratorio and musical theatre include the New Jersey State Opera, Northwest Lyric, and Scranton IV Opera, as well as with the Pittsburgh Symphony conducted by Andre Previn and Michael Tilson Thomas. She has been a repeated guest soloist with the NJ Pops and has performed Off-Broadway both at Saint Peter’s Theatre and the Westbeth Theatre Complex. Among her musical theatre performances, she has especially enjoyed playing Aldonza in Man of La Mancha. Her specialty program, Spirituals to Ragtime to Jazz, was recorded live in early May of 1997, in a tour that included the Watchung Arts Center and Morristown’s Bickford Theatre. She and her husband, John Hammel, have performed their program, “Great American Songbook”, with such jazz notables as Regan Ryzuk and Rio Clemente in their tireless efforts to promote great American composers of popular song.  Listen to her in "Wheels of a Dream" on our Sound Clips.

SEAN BARKER - Baritone - sang Jokanann in Salome with the Santo Domingo Opera, Wolfram in Tannhauser with the Tulsa Opera, plus the bass baritone leads in acclaimed productions of Manon and Tosca with Tosca Opera and in the Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Oratorio Society of Queens. Last year he sang the title role in Mendelsohn’s Elijah in New York and the Father in Hansel and Gretel, which he repeated in last year’s Musical Fairy Tales in Walpack. He starred in SWEENEY TODD with Opern Bauhaus, and opposite Rosalind Elias in REGINA at Long Wharf Theatre. He’s sung leads with Cameo’s MUSICAL AMERICA, POP OPERA, VICTOR HERBERT & NAUGHTY MARIETTA, BROADWAY in PARIS, Sean Barker’s ABENDMUSIK and New York City Opera’s Gilbert & Sullivan Company, MY FAIR LADY, MAN OF LA MANCHA, THE THREE-PENNY OPERA, FIDDLER on the ROOF DON GIOVANNI and GIANNI SCHICHHI. He’s sung over 80 opera and operetta roles alone with New York City Opera, the San Francisco Opera, the Baltimore and DALLAS Civic Opera, the Opera Company of Boston and Philadelphia Lyric Opera.

DEEGEE BRANDEMOUR - Soubrette - joining Cameo Productions for the first time, was seen on the Morning Show with Charles Kuralt and also in the made for television specials Broadway Applauds Lincoln Center and Show Business Applauds Lincoln Center, directed by Richard Maltby. She’s played leading roles in over twenty - eight musicals and dramas in New York City, stock and touring nationwide, among which have been such musicals as Kiss Me, Kate, Anything Goes, Desert Song, Gypsy, Annie, Guys and Dolls, Meet Me in St. Louis, Evita, Carousel, Company, The Mikado, and Pirates of Penzance. Her many acting roles in drama have included Picnic, On Golden Pond, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie, Lion in Winter, Paisley Convertible, and Absurd Person Singular.

STEVE DEPASS - “America’s Singing Poet”, who is one of Cameo’s star performers, is a world renowned Master of Improvisation. Cameo presented Steve both at William McNiece Auditorium and Selective Risk Auditorium for STAND UP FOR NEW JERSEY! to celebrate National Arts & Humanities Month’s big kick-off occasion, national Standing Ovation Day, twice. Steve’s half hour appearance for New Jersey PBS New Jersey Live! Has been aired repeatedly, giving additional plugs to Sussex County each time its aired. DePass who has performed repeatedly at the White House, for the Queen of England, at Carnegie Hall, Town Hall, the London Paladium, was dubbed “America’s Singing Poet” by the late Nelson Rockefeller. Discovered as a child star in Broadway’s CARMEN JONES and BLACKBIRDS, he subsequently appeared repeatedly on the Ed Sullivan Show, the Tonight Show and on every major TV variety show, including co-hosting the Mike Douglas Show.  Listen to him in "The Individual Song" and in the "Voices of Summer" on our Sound Clips.

For More on Steve, go to http://www.SteveDePass.Com

RON EDWARDS - Tenor - received glowing reviews for his concert tours of Germany which included performances in Berlin, Dresden, Dusseldorf and the world famous Beyreuth Festival, singing musical settings of the poems of Heinrich Heine, in addition to the premiere of Leonard Lehrman’s one-man opera, THE FAMILY MAN, at Semper Oper in Dresden. He’s sung over 100 roles in opera, operetta, musicals and oratorio ranging from Paul in DIE TOTE STADT to the Italian tenors in both CAPRICCIA and DER ROSENKAVALIER, OTELLO, ARABELLA, DIE FELDERMAUS, THE MERRY WIDOW, THE MARRIAGE OF FIGARO,OKLAHOMA!!,MY FAIR LADY, MESSIAH, ELIJAH at Kennedy Center, Alice Tully Hall, Lincoln Center, Central City Opera, Texas Opera Theatre American Music Theater Festival. His recordings include A Blitzstein Cabaret, X:the Life and Times of Malcolm X, and A Bryant Celebration.

DAN ENTRIKEN - Tenor - is originally from Baltimore, Maryland, where he began his early musical training at the prestigious Peabody Conservatory. In addition to Gilbert & Sullivan, he’s played dozens of roles in opera and operettas including La Traviata, Rigoletto, La Boheme, Madama Butterfly, Cavalleria Rusticana, Die Fledermaus, Song of Norway, Desert Song, Man of La Manacha, and Merry Widow with auspicious companies which include the San Francisco Opera, Philadelphia Lyric Opera, Baltimore Opera and The New Jersey State Opera. He’s sung sacred music throughout the Northeast, notably with The American Symphony Orchestra at Lincoln Center’s Avery Fisher Hall and nearby, The Northern Morris County Choral Society. He’s appeared on Broadway and Broadway National Tours in 1776, The Phantom of the Opera, Annie, Get Your Gun, and Shenandoah and more locally at the Papermill Playhouse. Among his film appearance are such notables as Serpico, Ragtime, The Verdict, and Dead Poets Society.

BRIAN K. ERNSTES - Tenor of Branchville, and a recent newcomer to Sussex County from the Midwest, has sung numerous operatic roles with the Lyric Opera of Kansas City, the Kansas City Civic Opera, the Indianapolis Opera, and the solo tenor roles in the Verdi Requiem and Messiah with the Houston Choral Society and many other civic and college organizations. A winner of many vocal competitions, he was a winner of the New Jersey State Opera Vocal Competition 2002, and has sung extensively with that company. He will be singing the leading tenor roles in their productions of in CAVALERIA RUSTICANA and PAGLIACCI. His roles in opera, musical comedy operetta, and variety range from AIDA, LA TRAVIATA, LE NOZZE di FIGARO, LA BOHEME, and IL TABARRO to BILLY BUDD, BALLAD OF BABY DOE, THE MERRY WIDOW, NEW MOON, HELLO, DOLLY, and THE RAGTIME LIL SHOW!  Listen to him in "Donna non vivi mai" on our Sound Clips.

CHRISTOPHER JOHN GILLESPIE - Singing Pianist / Arranger / Composer is a classically trained pianist renowned for his rendition of George Gershwin’s Rhapsody in Blue. He is a favorite of the New York Supper Club circuit and a featured performer at Manhattan’s famed Carlyle Hotel. Before 9/11, he frequently performed at Windows on the World at the top of the World Trade Center. His recording of original songs will soon be released, and he is engaged for performances worldwide from Australia to Europe. Born in Germany, he served as Musical Director and Organist at Zion Mark’s Evangelical Lutheran Church on Manhattan’s East side for many services in both English and German, and he is now Musical Director at New York’s St. Stephens Hungarian Church.

MALCOLM GORDON - Actor / Singer - began his career in the U.K. as a child performer with a Solo Act in Variety; appearing in theatres, lodges and concert halls. He studied at the London Theatre School with director Peter Deering. Moving to Toronto, he studied music and voice at the Royal Conservatory of Music and appeared in over 30 plays - including Ulysses in Nightown, The Zoo Story, Barefoot in the Park, Sleuth, The Birthday Party, Ring Around the Moon, Cages, The Government Inspector, The Entertainer, Two for the SeeSaw, I Never Sang for My Father, and the Canadian premiers of Boys in the Band and Small Craft Warnings and a record-breaking 24 week run in The Drunkard. His one man shows include Theatre songs of Brecht & Well, Theatre Songs of Eisler and Brel and Broadway and All that Jazz. In addition, Malcolm made CBC TV appearance and won the Best Actor award twice at the Ontario Drama Festival. Upon moving to New York, Malcolm studied and appeared in performance with Kenneth McMillan and was a regular in the Music Hall Revue at David Copperfield Club. With Cameo’s Musical Britannia and the London Musical, performing a diversity of music from Shakespeare’s plays Gilbert & Sullivan operettas through the musicals of Ivor Novello, Noel Coward and Andrew Lloyd Webber, he toured to such diverse venues as Lincoln Center Summer Festival, the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival, the West Virginia Summer Festival in Huntington and the International Banana Festival in Fulton, Kentucky. He starred opposite Madelyn Burns in A Lyrical Look at Love both in New York and Boston and has played many Catskill resort dates including Scotts in Deposit, Browns, Flieshmanns, and Sullivan County Performing Arts Center. FISH AND CHIPS is the product of Malcolm’s lifetime love affair with these wonderful theatrical songs and opened at Oddfellows Hall, Olivebridge, and played to a variety of audiences in New York State, before sold out performances at the 42nd Street “Spotlight on Winter Festival” in N.Y.C.

DOMINIC GUASTAFERRO - Baritone - has sung a variety of baritone roles with Cameo Productions, notably in MUSICAL AMERICA, and VICTOR HERBERT'’s MEMORY ALLBUM and NAUGHTY MARIETTA, in addition to having conducted LIBERTY! For Cameo’s production, WATER SONGS, he both sang the baritone and served as musical director/accompanist. He made his New York debut as featured singer of "The Impossible Dream" for thousands of visitors to Radio City Music Hall, followed by a career in every medium from the Goldovsky Opera to soap operas to a role in the film ARTHUR. He played opposite Julius LaRosa in A BROADWAY MUSICAL, and in THE CRADLE WILL ROCK at the Village Gate. He’s played baritone leads in KISS ME, KATE, SOUTH PACIFIC, THE SOUND OF MUSIC, and MAN OF LA MANCHA. With an Ed. D. from Columbia University he is Supervisor of Music and Art for the City School District of New Rochelle, sits on the Board for the New Rochelle Opera, and praises the Lord as Musical Director for the Church.

JOHN HAMMEL has a range that stretches from Broadway to the Opera House and has appeared with the New Jersey State Opera, Northwest Lyric, Trenton Civic, and Scranton IV Opera as well as Off-Broadway at the John Houseman, Saint Peter’s Theatre and Westbeth Theatre Complex. He’s appeared at Morristown’s Bickford Theatre in the dual lead roles of Jupiter/Amphitryon in their production of Olympus on my Mind and as Richard Henry Lee in their award winning production of 1776. He’s been featured as soloist at Carnegie Hall and sung with the New Jersey Pops in performances throughout New Jersey from Atlantic City to Cape May. He and his wife, Carmen Artis, concertize regularly throughout the Northeast in programs of opera and musical theatre selections. He hosts an eclectic weekly radio program, for over thirteen years, on WNTI - 91.9 FM, www.wnti.org, North New Jersey out of Hackettstown, NJ.  Listen to him in "Wheels of a Dream" on our Sound Clips.

JACQUELINE KROSCHELL -Soprano/Artistic Director  - Touring the Far East as leading soprano with The Opera Theatre of New York led to founding Cameo, which has performed nationwide and statewide for over two decades.  During the last year alone she created productions of Abraham Lincoln's Music, Amahl and the Night Visitors, Gilbert & Sullivan by the Carte, Centennial Classics and numerous other special programs for public, private, corporate audiences.   She recently starred in the New York Premiere of Steve DePass’s one woman inspirational work, Me, Myself and God at NYC's Saint Peter’s Church. . A lifelong performer, her Broadway and off-Broadway credits include MAN OF LA MANCHA, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, and THE PIRATES OF PENZANCE and Tamara.  She’s performed Gilbert & Sullivan and opera roles with New York City Opera, L.O.O.M., Lake George Opera, The Contemporary Opera of New York, and the Stratford Festival Company and been a Guest Artist with over three dozen symphony orchestras, including the Rochester and Buffalo Philharmonic, and the Baltimore, Dallas Detroit, Denver and Milwaukee Symphonys and Canada’s Vancouver, Winnepeg, and Edmonton Symphonys and Ottawa’s National Art Center.  She serves as “Nautical Nightingale” for the Council of American Master Mariners, and numerous other civic and nautical organizations. Listen to her in "Faith of My Childhood" in our Sound Clips.  She also collaborates on musical jingles with Steve DePass.

For more about Jacqueline, go to http://www.JacquelineKroschell.com

KAREN LUNDRY Lyric-Coloratura, a resident of Montclair, NJ, whose new CD,.“My Very High Ab and other Favorite Notes” has just been released, has been featured soloist at Radio City Music Hall, the Metropolitan Museum of Art, with the Brooklyn Chamber Orchestra, the Trinity Church Concert Series, Bargemusic, Bel Canto Opera, and toured Greece, Portugal, Italy, Morocco and Portugal as soloist with the International Chamber Orchestra. Early in her career, she was selected to be soprano soloist for the Margot Fonteyn-Rudolph Nureyev Gala Series at New York’s Uris Theatre. With Cameo’s Musical Britannia, she appeared in the New Jersey Shakespeare Festival and Lincoln Center Out of Doors. She toured the Far East as leading coloratura with the Opera Theatre of New York, playing leading roles in Don Pasquale, Rigoletto and Beatrice and Benedict. She made her formal New York recital debut at Merkin Hall.  Listen to her in "Art is Calling for Me" in our Sound Clips.

For more about Karen, go to http://KarenLundry.com

SHARON LEVIN - Flutist - has delighted local audiences as principal Flutist with the New Jersey Pops Symphony Orchestra for the past 14 years, in addition to her performances of HOMAGE previously in the VOICES OF SUMMER Festival. She and Jacqueline Kroschell met in 1992 when Jacqueline selected her to give special Master Classes in Flute funded by the Dodge Foundation for the Sussex County Teen Arts Festival. She has performed concerts in France, Switzerland, Germany, Israel, Costa Rica, Brazil, Ecuador and throughout the U.S.A., including five performances as soloist and chamber musician at Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall. Brazil, Costa Rica and Ecuador have featured her on their National Television, and she and harpist Karen Stern have been featured on NYC’s preeminent classical radio station, WQXR. As concerto soloist, she’s performed with the National Symphony of Ecuador three times and with the New Jersey Pops, Hudson Chamber Symphony, Union Symphony, Nutley Symphony and as duo soloist with Karen Stern with the Brazilian Symphony in Rio de Janeiro and the Sao Pedro Theatre Orchestra in Porto Alegre, Brazil and others. She recorded a CD, Reir Llorando, (To Laugh Crying), with her group, Trio Pasional, (flute and two guitars), which performed at NYC’s CAMI Hall in May 2003.

KELLI ANNE MIRO has been in over a dozen professional productions since the age of nine. She is the youngest member of Cameo Productions, Ltd., a professional company and has toured with them in the title role of the children’s opera LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD. According to the opera’s composer, Seymour Barabs, Kelli is the youngest actress to play this difficult role. She has also performed twice at the Lamb’s Club in New York City, the oldest theatrical club in the world. Some of Kelli’s credits include I REMEMBER MAMA, A CHRISTMAS CAROL, THE BROOKLYN BASEBALL CANTATA, JAKE’S WOMEN, MACBETH, LEADER OF THE PACK, and MUSEUM. Kelli has had leading roles in THE WIZARD OF OZ, THE JUNGLE BOOK, BYE-BYE BIRDIE, SOUTH PACIFIC, CRAZY FOR YOU, PIPPIN, and HIDE AND SEEK, Kelli has also had title roles in two productions, SYLVIA and NO NO NANETTE at Blair Academy where she just graduated. She is a junior at the prestigious Tisch School of the Arts at New York University this fall where she is a member of Strasberg Studio.

CAROL MIDDLETON - Musical Director / Pianist was born and educated in Mississippi before furthering her studies as an operatic soprano and accompanist/musical director in the New York area. In addition, she always had great mathematical talent and taught AP Calculus in high school for 34 years before retiring to concentrate totally on her musical endeavors. Her first performance for Cameo was with Jacqueline Kroschell for the 100th Anniversary Luncheon for the Chinkewunska Chapter of the D.A.R. in May. She’s performed as Musical Director for Mary and Regan Ryzuk’s Enchanted Players of Boonton, NJ, for productions of The Sound of Music, Once Upon a Mattress, Cinderella, Charlie Brown and the backer’s auditions for their new musical, Jack the Ripper, which has been optioned for a London West End production. Her long list of Musical Director credits for many companies includes such shows as A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Little Shop of Horrors, Children of Eden, The Mystery of Edwin Drood, and last year’s sell-out performances of The Music Man for the Jefferson Players.

MARTIN YAZDZIK - Conductor / Pianist - born in Pennsylvania, grew up in Scotland and was admitted to study for the Bar at the tender age of fifteen. Music was his true love, however, and by twenty, he’d graduated from Manhattan School of Music, studied with Britain’s Sir Colin Davis, and was engaged as a coach at Brussel’s famed opera house La Monnaie. This led to conducting at numerous German opera houses, while studying with Roumania’s Constantin Bugeanu. Aaachen Elmar Otthenthal engaged him to conduct Phantom, Les Miserables and Cats at Austria’s Theatre an der Wien, and for five years he conducted and created new productions for the opera house in Aachen, Gemany. Having recently relocated to the USA, he led performances of Dubrovsky at the Massachusetts International Festival of the Arts, worked with the Tulsa Opera, and in June, he conducted New York’s Golliard Chorale and Chamber Orchestra in Telemann, Beethoven and Haydn. Stateside, he’s worked with the Florida Grand Opera, Baton Rouge Opera, Tulsa Opera, Seattle Opera, and Bronx Opera. His repertoire includes some forty operas, seventeen oratorios, thirty-six symphonic works, and numerous operettas, musicals and ballets, and coaches many opera and musical theatre luminaries.