Jeannette LoVetri, Director

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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 at Shenandoah Conservatory featuring Somatic Voicework™, July 17-25, 2010, 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. The 2010 brochure isn't available yet, please look at the 2009 brochure at www.su.edu/www/tvpc/index.cfm For more information please visit our CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute page.

Other Venues for Somatic Voicework™ Level I

Somatic Voicework™ Level I will also be offered January 22-24, 2010, at UMass Dartmouth. Please view the brochure or contact Marcelle Gauvin.

Somatic Voicework™ Level I was held September 25-27, 2009, at the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy in Brooklyn, New York, with an emphasis on children and children choruses. For more information visit the Brooklyn Youth Chorus or contact Dianne Berkun.

Somatic Voicework™ Level I was held October 9-11, 2009, at Albion College in Albion, Michigan. For more information contact Robert Doyle.

Workshops/Masterclasses

Jeannette LoVetri was the keynote speaker at "Multidisciplinary Rehabilitation of the Performing Voice" at Palmer Commons, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, October 16-17, 2009, speaking on the topic "The Voice As A Metaphor For The  Person:  You Are Your Sound". For more information please view mvp2009.blogspot.com/

Jeannette LoVetri presented a workshop "Your Voice Is A Healing Tool©, Vocal Discovery and Transformation," October 31, 2009 at the Wainwright House, Home for Mind, Body & Spirit, 260 Stuyvesant Ave, Rye, NY 10580. For more information please view the Flyer or call 914-967-6080

Jeannette LoVetri presented a two day workshop at Roger Williams University, Bristol Rhode Island, November 21-22, 2009 on "Vocal Technique in Music Theatre". For more information please contact Stephanie Dean

Jeannette LoVetri will be in Brazil in São Paulo and Rio de Janeiro from March 18th to April 4th in 2010 for both workshops and private classes. For more information, contact Hugo Casarini and please visit our events page.