Tenor Marco Cammarota, a native of Schenectady, New York, also lived in Italy as a child.  In 2011,  he was a winner of the prestigious George London Foundation Competition.  In summer 2011, he was a Young Artist at the Crested Butte Music Festival in Colorado, and has just returned from the Des Moines Metro Opera, where he was a Young Artist, covering Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni and singing several featured roles and  scenes programs.  He is entering his final year of the Artist Diploma program at the Cincinnati College Conservatory of Music, where he studies with Thomas Baresel.  At CCM, he has performed the roles of Don Jose in La Tragédie de Carmen, Peter Quint in The Turn of the Screw, the chaplain in Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Carlson in Of Mice and Men. Elsewhere, he has sung roles including Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni, Rinuccio in Gianni Schicchi, and Egisto in L’Egisto.