Artist Group: 2025-2026

Praised as “Ireland’s Most Exciting Young Tenor,” Emmet Cahill has captivated audiences across North America for over a decade as the lead singer of the PBS phenomenon Celtic Thunder. During this time, he has helped the group achieve remarkable success, with six albums reaching #1 on the World Billboard charts.

He has been the featured guest soloist with prestigious ensembles including the world-renowned Tabernacle Choir, Atlanta Symphony and Pittsburgh Symphony. As a solo artist, Emmet has performed in over 100 cities across the U.S. and Canada, and his sold-out solo debut at New York’s legendary Carnegie Hall was met with rave reviews.

Emmet’s concert programs showcase beloved Irish classics that resonate deeply with audiences, especially the millions of Irish Americans across the country. His repertoire also includes timeless American standards like Moon River and Some Enchanted Evening, alongside showstopping anthems such as The Impossible Dream and You Raise Me Up. Through his soaring tenor voice and heartfelt performances, Emmet has solidified his place as one of the most sought-after Irish tenors of his generation.

MORGAN JAMES is a classically trained vocalist, Broadway veteran and recording artist. 

Morgan recently premiered two new symphonic programs with maestro Ted Sperling: “Clouds in my Coffee: the trailblazing music of Joni Mitchell, Carole King and Carly Simon” and “Kodachrome”, celebrating Paul Simon. 

Ms. James is a frequent symphony pops soloist, whose appearances includes San Francisco Symphony, Ravinia Festival, Philadelphia, Virginia, Wheeling, Cleveland Pops, Houston, Sun Valley Music Festival, American Pops Orchestra, Spokane, Detroit, Harrisburg, San Diego, Utah, Youngstown, Fort Meyers, Kansas City, Charlotte, Allentown, East Lansing, Atlanta, Colorado (and many more). 

On Broadway, Morgan has appeared in five Original Broadway Casts: Motown: The Musical, Godspell, Wonderland, The Addams Family and Kristin Chenoweth’s For The Girls. With viral sensation Postmodern Jukebox and her own channel, her videos on YouTube have garnered 300 million views (and counting). 

As a recording artist, Ms. James just released her sixth studio album entitled “Soul Remains the Same,” an electrifying soul revival tour through some of her own guilty pleasure favorites: heavy rock and metal songs of the 80s and 90s. Her music is available on all streaming platforms. 

Morgan received her voice training at The Juilliard School.  For more information and tour dates, please visit her website: www.morganjamesonline.com. 

 

Instagram: @morganajames

Renée Fleming is one of the most highly acclaimed singers of our time, performing on the stages of the world’s great opera houses and concert halls. A 2023 Kennedy Center Honoree, winner of five Grammy® awards and the US National Medal of Arts, she has sung for momentous occasions from the Nobel Peace Prize ceremony to the Diamond Jubilee for Queen Elizabeth II at Buckingham Palace. A groundbreaking distinction came in 2008 when she became the first woman in the 125-year history of the Metropolitan Opera to solo headline an opening night gala, and in 2014 she became the first classical artist ever to sing the National Anthem at the Super Bowl. In 2023, the World Health Organization appointed her as a Goodwill Ambassador for Arts and Health.

Renée’s current concert calendar includes appearances in London, Vienna, Milan, Los Angeles, and at Carnegie Hall. In May at the Metropolitan Opera, she will reprise her role in The Hours, an opera which premiered last year, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel and award-winning film. Last March, she portrayed Pat Nixon in a new production of Nixon in China at the Opéra de Paris. 

Renée’s new anthology, Music and Mind: Harnessing the Arts for Health and Wellness, will be published in spring, 2024. A prominent advocate for research at the intersection of arts, health, and neuroscience, as Artistic Advisor to the Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, Renée launched the first ongoing collaboration between America’s national cultural center and its largest health research institute, the National Institutes of Health. She created her own program called Music and the Mind, which she has presented in more than fifty cities around the world, earning Research!America’s Rosenfeld Award for Impact on Public Opinion. In 2020, Renée launched Music and Mind LIVE, a weekly web show exploring the connections between arts, human health, and the brain, amassing nearly 700,000 views, from 70 countries. She is now an advisor for major initiatives in this field, including the Sound Health Network at the University of California San Francisco and the NeuroArts Blueprint at Johns Hopkins University. 

Renée has recorded everything from complete operas and song recitals to indie rock and jazz. In January, Decca released a special double-length album of live recordings from Renée’s greatest performances at the Metropolitan Opera. In February, Renée received the Grammy Award for Best Classical Vocal Solo for her album Voice of Nature: The Anthropocene, with Yannick Nézet-Seguin as pianist. Known for bringing new audiences to classical music and opera, Renée has sung not only with Luciano Pavarotti and Andrea Bocelli, but also with Elton John, Paul Simon, Sting, Josh Groban, and Joan Baez. Renée’s voice is featured on the soundtracks of Best Picture Oscar winners The Shape of Water and The Lord of the Rings. 

 

Co-Artistic Director of the Aspen Opera Center and VocalArts at the Aspen Music Festival, Renée is also Advisor for Special Projects at LA Opera, and she leads SongStudio at Carnegie Hall. Renée’s other awards include the 2023 Crystal Award from the World Economic Forum in Davos, the Fulbright Lifetime Achievement Medal, Germany’s Cross of the Order of Merit, Sweden’s Polar Music Prize, France’s Chevalier de la Légion d’Honneur, and honorary doctorates from 8 major universities. www.reneefleming.com

Jamie Bernstein is an author, narrator, director, broadcaster, and filmmaker. Her 2018 memoir, Famous Father Girl, is about growing up with composer-conductor Leonard Bernstein, and pianist and actress Felicia Montealegre in an atmosphere bursting with music, theatre and literature. Jamie has written and narrated concerts about Mozart, Aaron Copland, and Stravinsky, as well as “The Bernstein Beat,” a family concert about her father modeled after his groundbreaking Young People’s Concerts. She appears worldwide performing her own scripted narrations as well as standard concert narrations, such as Copland’s “A Lincoln Portrait” and her father’s Symphony No. 3, “Kaddish.” Jamie has produced and hosted the New York Philharmonic’s live national radio broadcasts, as well as many summer broadcasts from Tanglewood. She recently narrated the podcast “The NY Phil Story: Made in New York.” Jamie is the co-director of Crescendo: the Power of Music, an award-winning documentary film focusing on children in struggling urban communities, who participate in youth orchestra programs for social transformation. Jamie’s articles and poetry have appeared in such publications as Symphony, Town & Country, and Opera News. She also edits “Prelude, Fugue & Riffs,” a newsletter pertaining to her father’s legacy.

Known for his stage savvy, Robert Kerr’s foundation in opera began in musical theater. Anthony Tommasini of the New York Times wrote of his Falstaff: “He made words matter and conveyed the self-delusion of this likable laughingstock… “

Recent and upcoming: Mr. Kerr was heard as Germont with the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York at Lincoln Center; and sang the King in Aida with Opera Columbus. This past season Mr. Kerr sang solo engagements with the Hudson Valley Philharmonic, the Ohio Song Project and Denison University. In addition he participates in Opera Columbus’s world première of The Flood by Korine Fujiwara directed by Stephen Wadsworth; he was soloist in Mozart’s Requiem with Philharmonia Orchestra of New York; and was the title role of Rigoletto with Opera Projects Columbus. This season he played the title role in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Columbus.

Robert Kerr returned to Rose Theater with Maestro Atsushi Yamada and the Philharmonia Orchestra of New York in a Verdi concert and sang Pooh-Bah in The Mikado with Performance Santa Fe!; and, was the title role in Gianni Schicchi with Opera Project Columbus. He returned to Japan for engagements in performances of Requiem by Minoru Miki in Natori and reprising the work at Rose Theater at Lincoln Center. He was the Germont in La traviata with the Arroyo Foundation; concerts with the Columbus Symphony; covered the role of the King in El Gato con Botas with Gotham Chamber Opera; was soloist with the New York City Opera Orchestra in a Japan tour of Carmina Burana and sang Tonio in Pagliacci with Opera Columbus.

Other engagements include his appearance at the Kennedy Center Honors along with Sondra Radvanovsky and Joseph Calleja in an Aida tribute to honoree, Martina Arroyo. He sang the title role of Falstaff with the Martina Arroyo Foundation’s “Prelude to Performance” with Willie Waters conducting and was engaged with the Lancaster Festival in Ohio. Mr. Kerr was Sharpless in Madama Butterfly with Opera Columbus and made his Indianapolis Opera debut this season as Peachum in The Threepenny Opera. He sang Pooh-Bah in The Mikado with Sinfonia da Camera in Illinois and was soloist with the ProMusica Chamber Orchestra in Mozart’s Große Messe in c-Moll; he reprised the role of Peachum with Amarillo Opera.

Past roles include: Scarpia in Tosca, Secret Police Agent in The Consul, Malatesta in Don Pasquale, Germont in La traviata, Ford in Falstaff, Sharpless in Madama Butterfly, Zurga in Les pêcheurs de perles, Marullo in Rigoletto, Danieli in Das Liebesverbot, Commissario in Madama Butterfly; and, Keeper of the Madhouse in The Rake’s Progress. Mr. Kerr has sung King Hildebrand in Princess Ida with So. Ohio Light Opera; he was engaged by Opera Memphis as the Sacristan and Jailer in Tosca; and sang Carmina Burana with the Las Cruces Symphony and El Paso Chorale.

He has appeared in summer stock with The Barn Theater and Huron Playhouse; and in past productions with the University of Cincinnati College-Conservatory of Music’s Opera Theater and the Music Festival of Lucca, Italy. For three seasons he was a member of the Glimmerglass Opera where he participated in the Young American Artists program. In addition, he was a member of San Francisco Opera’s Merola Opera Program where he received advanced training.

Reviews

La traviata, Prelude to Performance

“Robert Kerr, the baritone singing the role of Germont evinced a full rich voice and did justice to his character and his emotional shifts. His Act II arias bore intense charges. His shame for his son in Act III was palpable. When he embraced Violetta as his daughter in Act IV, we could literally feel his remorse.”

— Meche Kroop, Voce di Meche

“The hearty baritone Robert Kerr began his career in musical theater, and that experience showed in his performance of Falstaff. He made words matter and conveyed the self-delusion of this likable laughingstock, a character convinced that his girth is actually an imposing physique with natural appeal for cultured women.“

— Anthony Tommasini, The New York Times

 

“Her voice is like a cello, with such a deep and beautiful resonance!” – Libby Larsen

“The climaxes are wonderfully secure and exciting to hear. . . and what is also wonderful is her dramatic involvement, which is total — she lives every line.” – Roger Pines (Lyric Opera of Chicago)

Chelsea Hart Melcher has been described as “cooly captivating,” “ethereal and sublime,” and “a woman to be reckoned with” onstage. A national finalist in Sherrill Milnes’ “Opera Idol” competition, Melcher earned a Performance Diploma from the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music, a Master of Music from The Ohio State University, and a Bachelor of Music from Central Michigan University. She has worked with numerous symphonies and opera companies across the nation, and was the soprano soloist for the American premiere of Requiem Novum by Mårten Jansson. Melcher has also performed as soloist in Verdi’s Requiem, Strauss’ Vier Letzte Lieder, Handel’s Messiah, Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony, Mass in C and Choral Fantasy, Mahler’s Second Symphony, Dan Forrest’s Requiem for the Living, Michael Haydn’s Requiem in C, Mozart’s Requiem and Coronation Mass, and others. Her operatic roles include Micaëla and Frasquita in Carmen, Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte, Valencienne in The Merry Widow, Donna Elvira in Don Giovanni, Mimi and Musetta in La Bohème, Violetta and Annina in La Traviata, Nedda in I Pagliacci, Maria in The Sound of Music, Adina in L’Elisir d’amore, Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica, Butterfly in Madama Butterfly, Norina in Don Pasquale, Mariuccia in I Due Timidi, Female Chorus in The Rape of Lucretia, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi, and Papagena in Die Zauberflöte. Melcher is director of Opera and Musical Theater at the Capital University Conservatory of Music, and serves on the faculty of Columbus Children’s Theatre. She is the Founder of Vocal Career Academy and Nerves Be Gone Academy, and Co-Founder with her husband Paul Melcher of Red School of Music in suburban Columbus.

To access Chelsea’s album, “So Smooth, So Sweet – Songs of Allen Sapp,”  CLICK HERE.