Featured Performers for 24-25

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Considered one of the top mentalists in the world, Kevin Viner has appeared on Penn and Teller: Fool Us, Masters of Illusion, Don’t Blink, commercials for T-Mobile and Now You See Me 2, as well as on the PBS documentary Johnny Carson: King of Late Night. As a corporate entertainer, Kevin has engaged top-level management with Google, Intel, Cisco, Starbucks, and many more.
 

Kevin started young with his first magic set at five, a passion for the craft and not a shadow of a doubt what his career path would be. By age 14, he’d begun performing at the world-renowned Magic Castle in Hollywood. And by only 17, he was establishing a career as one of the top emerging mentalists in the country. Today, he performs over 150 events annually for clients around the world.
 

Kevin’s wide-ranging interests often find intriguing ways into his shows. With a degree in mathematics, he can harness probability to determine how guests are most likely to respond. Through his research in psychological profiling, he is able to deduce who may be the best participants in the show. Through his backgrounds in aviation and martial arts, he has honed keen observational skills and reaction times. Through his studies in piano and guitar, he has gained a sense of rhythm that keeps the show flowing constantly. And through his education in comedy and improv, he will keep your guests laughing the entire time.

LAUREN JELENCOVICH is currently on tour with Yanni as his featured vocalist, performing to sold out venues all over the world such as Radio City Music Hall, Red Rocks Amphitheater and Royal Albert Hall. She can be seen on his PBS Specials/DVDs and CDs. Lauren is featured on Yanni's album, Inspirato, singing the song Usignolo (Nightingale) alongside Plácido Domingo and Renèe Fleming. Lauren is a Grand Prize winner of Ed McMahon’s Star Search and Andrea Bocelli’s World Scholarship. Featured in People Magazine’s 50 Most Beautiful People and Teen Magazine, Lauren has garnered great acclaim for her affecting portrayals of opera and musical theater roles throughout the world.

Recently, Lauren collaborated with Manhattan Concert Productions alongside Sierra Boggess, Norm Lewis, Tony Yazbeck and many other Broadway stars for a tribute concert. Lauren teamed  up with Mauricio Martinez and Felipe Tristan for their own concert titled  "Broadway Sinfonico." With record breaking attendance, over 20 thousand people watched the performance at the famed Festival de Santa Lucia in Monterrey, Mexico. Yanni's tour just concluded a third visit to Saudi Arabia, where Lauren was the first woman in recent history to sing on stage for a mixed audience of men and women, a moment she and Yanni both recall as one of the most moving experiences on stage.

Lauren is a graduate of the Manhattan School of Music and is known for her effortless high notes. She excels in the classical crossover world and audiences are captivated not only by her voice, but also her authenticity and hilarious stories of her travels and life. She has a fan base of over 80k throughout her social media platforms, over 4.8 Million streams on Spotify and Apple, as well as over 1 Million views on YouTube. Between tours and solo performances, Lauren has been writing and working on her next album. Her solo album, Wildest Dreams, along with other singles can be bought or streamed wherever you get your music!

 Award-winning Multi gold and platinum recording artist, Robert Michaels, has won the  esteem of critics worldwide with award-winning performances that bring  audiences to their feet every time.  

 His impressive sales figures and winner of a Juno Award (Canadian Grammy)  for “Best Instrumental Album,” Robert received Best Vocalist, Instrumentalist and Album  nominations for his self-titled fifth album, a 2-CD set. Besides his own vocal performances,  the album featured contributions from acclaimed vocalist Grammy winner Jennifer Warnes;  three-time Juno Award winner as Female Vocalist of the Year, Luba;  Tony Award-nominated Broadway star, Louis Pitre.   Sterling accolades and impressive figures aside,  Robert is well known as an intuitive musician with an electric energy and a  captivating blend of styles. He has engaged concert goers across the  globe with his heartfelt enthusiasm, leaving all with memories they won’t soon forget.   Robert’s instrumental music crosses over into samples and tastes from many  genres, including Cuban, Italian and flamenco. 

 Michaels started his musical career in Canada, though his parents  aren’t Canadian natives, but immigrated there from Italy. As a child, and than as a teen,  Michaels was raised on a varied musical diet that found him being influenced by many  different kinds of musicians and styles along the way, like Jimmy Page, Carlos Santana,  and Wes Montgomery, and everything from rock, to tango, to jazz.  

 "I have had the pleasure of performing with some of the best Cuban musicians in the world,  one being the legendary Compay Segundo from the Buena Vista Social Club band,”  says Robert. “I dedicated the song ‘Compay’ to his memory.  We were about to record a track together just before he became ill and passed away in 2003  at the age of 95. I’m thankful to have shared the stage with him.”  Robert's show VIA ITALIA, promises another memorable musical journey, this time to  his ancestral home and the music of Italy as you have never heard, or seen it, before 

Admit it: We are suckers for a story with romance. Watch “My (unauthorized) Hallmark Movie Musical” and discover a writer who dreams herself awake and re-discovers romance in a nonconventional way. 

In this innovative one-woman show supported by a cast of eight characters in her imagination via multimedia, we escape into her movie fantasy where men and women find courage and acceptance to speak their own voice without judgment.

Frivolous, fractured, and fun musical moments take you on a ride of pure joy. . . 

where love always wins.