2023 Grammy Nominated Tenor, Matthew Arnold, has been hailed by Classical Voice of North Carolina as “a golden voice, strong, rich and surprisingly mature for hisage…[Mr. Arnold] sounded like Lauritz Melchior himself.”  A two-time Finalist in the Houston Grand Opera Eleanor McCollum Competition, Matthew spent the last 10years working in the world of professional opera. Recent awards include Third Placein the Charlotte Opera Guild Competition, the Encouragement Award at the 2015-2017 Heafner-Williams Competition, The Encouragement Award in 2015 fromChautauqua Opera and in April 2014, he won the Verdi Award from the OrpheusNational 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. 

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.

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.
The Marblehead resident is currently in her 10th season as the soprano soloist for the
Old North Church and Festival Chorus. 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 guitarist, Chris Fitz, as well as her
partner, Matthew Arnold, in their eclectic pandemic concert series,The Coronacabana.
Holly is also an experienced Realtor® with J Barrett & Co. and is known in Boston and
the North Shore as the “Real Estate Diva”. For more information and other upcoming
performances, please visit: www.hollycameronmusic.com and follow her on facebook
and instagram @hollycameronmusic