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Welcome

Thank you for visiting The Voice Workshop™. I hope you will feel welcome to browse our website and get to know us. I am Jeannette LoVetri, known to my friends as Jeanie, and I am the Founder and Director of The Voice Workshop™ and creator of Somatic Voicework™, a unique body-based voice training program.

Our Mission

We exist to provide cutting-edge vocal information for singers, singing teachers, colleges, universities, conservatories, corporations and those who work with or care for the voice. The information we provide is based upon the latest voice science and medicine as well as more than 35 years professional experience in the field of voice training and care, most particularly in professional singing in New York City.

We desire to be of service to music schools and programs, theatrical, film and recording producers, personal managers, professional voice users, teachers of singing and all those interested in the voice, by providing training and techniques to relax, strengthen and develop the voice.

We believe that the human voice is not limited and that everyone can have a beautiful, expressive voice, no matter what previous experience may have been. We know that everyone can train his or her voice to be flexible, powerful and persuasive, and we believe that full vocal expression leads to deeper personal fulfillment.

We believe that music, especially vocal music, is healing to do and to hear and that all people have equal and free access to the musical instrument that's inside their own body their voice.

Our Philosophy

The voice that we hear when we speak or sing is produced by the vocal folds when air is expressed through the throat into the mouth and shaped into sounds, words, and phrases through mental intention. The voice, therefore, resides in the body and is produced by a unity of body and mind, of lungs, throat and mouth. We believe that vocal development begins with mental clarity and awareness. We believe that awareness of the body is vital to vocal expression and that it can be learned by anyone. Coupled with correct information, sound making becomes an intimate, immediate experience done in a deliberate manner.

We believe that the body is wise.
We believe that there is an intuitive urge in all of us to make sound as freely as babies do, and to sing.
We believe that deep, free, easy inhalation and exhalation is a requisite for emotional expression.
Finally, we believe that everyone can learn to have a wonderful voice and can learn to sing, and sing well.

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CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah University

The Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute tenth anniversary featuring Somatic Voicework™, the LoVetri Method, runs July 14-23, 2012 for levels I, II and III. It continues to be the first and only vocal pedagogy course offering graduate and doctoral credit for courses on CCM. It also offers a number of post certification courses for those who are certified as Level III graduates. Until our 2012 brochure is ready, Please view our 2011 brochure. For further questions please contact: Kathyn Green at kgreen@su.edu.
For more information please visit our CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute page and especially the website for the CCM Institute for the latest news.

Other Venues for Somatic Voicework™ Level I

Somatic Voicework™ Level I will also be offered January 20-22, 2012, at UMass Dartmouth. Our 2012 UMass brochure is now available. For more information , please contact Marcelle Gauvin.

NEW!!!
Somatic Voicework™ Level I will now be offered May 18-May 20, 2012, at the University of University of Central Oklahoma at Edmond, OK. For details and registration information, please visit our brochure. For more information, please contact Barbara Streets.

Somatic Voicework™ Level I will offered again for the second year October 12- 14, 2012, at the University of Michigan at Ann Arbor. Until our 2012 brochure is available, please view the 2011 brochure. For more information please contact Marci Rosenberg

Special Events

Jeannette LoVetri will be presenting a Workshop June 15-17, 2012 "Your Voice Is A Healing Tool" at the Omega Institute® in Rhinebeck, NY. This workshop explores the concepts of voice/sound healing and a overview of vocal sound and the history of the use of sound and voice in various healing disciplines. Details TBA

Workshops/Masterclasses

Jeannette LoVetri will present a workshop and masterclass for high school and collage students with open attendance, Friday evening and Saturday morning, November 4-5, 2011, Sponsored by NATS Georgia and co-sponsored by GA MTNA, at Columbus State University. For information please contact Dr. Christina Howell.

Jeannette LoVetri will be in Boston, MA in November 10-12, 2011, for classes and master classes. Location TBA. For more information, please contact Kris Adams.

Jeannette LoVetri in conjunction with Dianne Berkun, Artistic Director of the grammy Award winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy will offer Cross-Choral Training® for teachers and conductors of young singers on Saturday, January 28, 2012 at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy located at 179 Pacific Street, Cobble Hill, Brooklyn NY from 10am to 5pm. Please view the brochure and the registration forms. For more information contact Dianne Berkun

Jeannette LoVetri, Director

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