Award-winning jazz vocalist Rhiannon Kaela Hurst has appeared on national and international stages, earning recognition as a 2021 National YoungArts Jazz Voice Winner and performing at the 2023 International Guinness Jazz Festival in Ireland. A 2025 graduate of the College of the Holy Cross and the Brooks Music and Fenwick Scholar, she studied jazz voice at the New England Conservatory with Professor Dominique Eade. She will return this fall to pursue her Master’s in Jazz Vocal Performance as the inaugural student in the Holy Cross–NEC 4+1 program.