Jennifer Miller Hammel
Host, Classical California's Arcade
Jennifer Miller Hammel has been performing professionally as a vocalist, recording artist, and voice-over talent for over 20 years. Career highlights include Gounod's Faust (Marguerite), Ragtime (Mother), Songs for a New World (Woman #1), soprano soloist in Carmina Burana, and various productions with the Princeton Opera Festival, Opera Santa Barbara, and Long Beach Opera. She can be heard on the soundtracks to Riot Games’ League of Legends, Cat Secretary from Good Story Guild, and Trion Worlds’ online game Rift: Planes of Telara from Fallout and Starfield composer Inon Zur. In addition, she was the featured soloist in the 2016 animated film Nerdland and provided backup vocals on Dream Theater’s album The Astonishing.
In recent years, she has shifted her vocal talents from the stage to the radio booth when she joined the on-air team at Classical California. She can be heard weekdays as the morning show host on Classical California and is the host and producer of the Opera Show, the nationally syndicated LA Opera On-Air broadcast series, and Classical California’s on demand video game music stream Arcade which was featured in the New York Times and NPR’s All Things Considered. She is a frequent collaborator with the Los Angeles Master Chorale for their “Listen Up!” pre-concert interview series, as well the regular host for “Conversations with Classical California,” the pre-concert lecture series with the Santa Barbara Symphony.
Ms. Miller Hammel was the featured vocal soloist and pianist with the St. Mary’s College of Maryland Jazz Ensemble, where she earned her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Music. She completed her Master of Music degree in Voice Performance and Pedagogy at Westminster Choir College in Princeton, NJ under the instruction of soprano Margaret Cusack. In addition, she holds an Honorary Doctorate from Concordia University Irvine. When not sharing fascinating musical stories on the radio, she can be found behind a game controller or exploring the beautiful central coast of California.
