Every Sunday night during 2020 of the Pandemic, now husband and wife, Matthew Arnold and Holly Cameron broadcast their aptly named, Coronacabana, on Facebook Live from their living room, bringing viewers stuck at home music and commentary of a variety of genres, harkening back to the days of the Ed Sullivan and Bob Hope variety shows. Pianist savant, Matt Savage, joins the duo in a program of operatic and Broadway hits along with American Songbook classics.

 

Soprano, Holly Cameron, has been hailed a “marvelous femme fatale” (Boston Musical Intelligencer) with “rip-roaring high notes” (Boston Globe). Some of her favorite operatic roles include Donna Anna (Don Giovanni), Musetta (La Boheme), and Abigail (The Crucible), among others. On the concert stage, Ms. Cameron has appeared as a soloist in works such as Carmina Burana, Brahms’ Requiem, Poulenc’s Gloria, Mozart’s Requiem, Faure’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass, and Bach’s St. John’s Passion and St. Matthew’s Passion. A recipient of numerous honors, Ms. Cameron was a New England Regional Finalist in the Metropolitan Opera National Council Auditions and has won awards in the Shreveport Opera Competition, Sarasota Artist Series competition and the National Orpheus Vocal Competition, among others. She holds a Bachelor’s Degree in Voice Performance from New England Conservatory and a Master’s Degree in Voice Performance from Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music. Outside of classical music, Holly has a growing reputation as a crossover artist, straddling every genre from jazz and pop to rock, blues, and soul, performing frequently with award winning blues guitarist, Chris Fitz. Holly is also an experienced Realtor® with William Raveis Real Estate and is known in Boston and on the North Shore as the “Real Estate Diva”.

 

For more information please visit: www.hollycameronmusic.com and follow her on facebook and instagram @hollycameronmusic and @hollycameronrealestatediva

 

Matthew Arnold, a 2023 Grammy Nominated Tenor, has been hailed by Classical Voice of North Carolina as “a golden voice, strong, rich and surprisingly mature for his age…[Mr. Arnold] sounded like Lauritz Melchior himself.” A two-time Finalist in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, Matthew spent the last 10 years working in the world of professional opera. Recent awards include Third Place in the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition, the Encouragement Award at the 2015-2017 Heafner-Williams Competition, The Encouragement Award in 2015 from Chautauqua Opera and in April 2014, he won the Verdi Award from the Orpheus National Vocal Competition. Mr. Arnold has sung throughout the United States and Europe with many opera companies including the Castleton Festival as Prince Yamadori in Madama Butterfly under the baton of the late Maestro Lorin Maazel, AJ Fletcher Opera Institute, Piedmont Opera, Opera Roanoke, North Carolina Opera, and Chautauqua Opera. Recent role performances include The Ring Announcer in Champion with Boston Lyric Opera, Policeman/Reporter in X: The Life and Times of Malcom X, Bacchus in Ariadne auf

Naxos with Miami Music Festival and the Fletcher Opera Institute, Don José in Carmen and Siegmund and Florestan in scenes from Die Walküre and Fidelio, respectively. Mr. Arnold holds the BM in Voice from the University of Delaware, the Master of Music degree in Voice from the UNC Greensboro and the Artist Diploma from The University of North Carolina School of the Arts. Mr. Arnold currently resides with his wife, Holly

Cameron in Marblehead where he is Director of Music and Organist at Our Lady Star of the Sea as well as the director of his 12 piece big band, The New England Yankees, and his dixie land band, Matthew Arnold and the Clambake 5.

 

Matt Savage has had a remarkable 20+ year professional career as a jazz pianist, bandleader and composer since childhood. He’s played with some of the biggest names in jazz, including Chick Corea, Chaka Khan, Wynton Marsalis, Bobby Watson, Clark Terry, and Jimmy Heath among others. He’s also opened for rock legends Bruce Springsteen, Neil Young and Stephen Stills, and has performed with Steve Earle, Jackson Browne, Shawn Colvin and Al Stewart. Matt is a Bösendorfer piano artist.

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As a composer, Matt has garnered respect and recognition. He composed and recorded the score for a full-length documentary film, Sound of Redemption: The Frank Morgan Story. Matt has over a dozen albums, consisting primarily of original music. His latest project is the Matt Savage Groove Experiment’s second album, The Groove Reawakens (released December 2022). Savage has toured worldwide, including performances at The Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall, Birdland, the Blue Note (NYC and Beijing), jazz festivals worldwide, and tours of Asia and Europe. Having graduated from both Berklee College of Music and Manhattan School of Music, Matt balances his touring career with teaching. He is on the faculty of the Longy School of Music, Saint Anselm College, Bunker Hill Community College, and Community Music Center of Boston.