JEANNETTE L. LoVETRI
BIOGRAPHY - 2009
Jeannette LoVetri is in demand as one of the world's top specialists in training singers for contemporary commercial music (CCM) of all styles. Her expertise has been recognized worldwide through invitations for lectures at national and international symposia, seminars, and professional congresses, and for master classes at universities and conservatories.
As Director of The Voice Workshop™, Jeannette has maintained a private practice teaching singing since 1971. Her students have appeared on and Off-Broadway, on network TV, in cabaret, major films, opera, national tours and regional theater as well as at Carnegie and Town Halls. She has been on Faculty of the Steindhardt School of Education at New York University and has also taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, from 1999 to 2008. She is also has been guest lecturer at Columbia University Teacher's College. Jeannette is also Singing Specialist for the Grammy®-award winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy (BYC), and has been since its inception. BYC's Concert Chorus has performed nationally, at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, with The New York Philharmonic, on the Today Show, Saturday Night Live, and with Elton John, Paul Simon, Judy Collins, Brandy and many other orchestras and celebrities.
Jeannette is Artist-in-Residence at The Contemporary Commercial Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah Conservatory in Winchester, Virginia. The Institute was created for her and she teaches her method, Somatic Voicework™ there with Dr. Kathryn Green of the Shenandoah Faculty as well as four outside Faculty and three guest experts each summer. She is a Past President of The New York Singing Teachers' Association (NYSTA). She is a also a member of the New York City Chapter of The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and the American Academy of Teachers of Singing, where she was Secretary. The American Academy is a national organization of not more than 40 teachers of singing from the premier classical conservatories and universities and from private studios. The Academy issues statements to the profession on issues of professionalism and ethics. Membership in The Academy is by inner nomination only and unanimous acceptance.
Jeannette has worked for many years in liaison with noted medical and clinical specialists retraining injured singing voices. She was one of the first singing consultants at the Grabscheid Voice Center at Mt. Sinai Medical Center in New York City, working there under Dr. Peak Woo. She also consulted at The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary with Dr. Lucian Sulica and Alison Behrman, PhD., and Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center with Thomas Murry, PhD., all also in New York City.
Jeannette has presented two joint workshops in New York with Daniel R. Boone, Ph.D., one of the founding fathers of voice science research in speech pathology and Professor Emeritus at the University of Arizona. She was the subject of a research study conducted by KTH, The Swedish Institute of Technology, with Dr. Johan Sundberg, one of the world's foremost voice scientists, and the late Dr. Patricia Gramming, of the Karolinska Hospital in Stockholm. The study examined the acoustic and physiologic differences between head, chest and mix registers in singing. She is primary author of research published in the Journal of Voice in June of 1998 and co-author, in 1999, with Dr. Jason Surow, otolaryngologist, on research about singers' use of alternative medicine. That year, she participated in research with Dr. Ingo Titze, of Iowa University and The National Center for Voice and Speech, in which her larynx was wired with electrodes in order to study vibrato. Also in 1999, Jeannette was recipient of the prestigious Van Lawrence Fellowship given by The Voice Foundation and NATS in recognition of contributions to the field of singing teaching and the use of voice science in that regard. Subsequently, she was additionally honored by the New York Singing Teachers' Association for her work as a past president and for her service in voice science on behalf of singing teachers.
In 2008 Jeannette was appointed to the Faculty of Drexel University College of Medicine, Department of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery, by Dr. Robert T. Sataloff, Head of the Department. This honor position may make her the only voice teacher in the world on a medical faculty. She was also honored by the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy at their annual gala at the Steiner Studios in Brooklyn for her 16 years of work with the chorus as its Singing Specialist.
She is a faculty member and on the Scientific Advisory Board of the Voice Foundation's Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, the senior medical and scientific conference on voice care in the world. She was featured speaker at the 2008 "Sing Into Spring" Conference of the Australia National Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS) in Perth, Australia.
This was her third trip to Australia. In 1994 and 1996, Jeannette was twice the keynote speaker and international guest lecturer for the National Cabaret and Music Theater Training Seminar in Sydney, Australia. Jeannette was one of only six Americans to be a faculty teacher at the First Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC) in London and again lectured and was a monitor at the 2005 PEVOC6, also in London. She was guest lecturer at Freie Universistat in Berlin, addressing the Department of Speech, Audiology and Phoniatrics and has taught at the University Hospital Eppendorf in Hamburg, Germany, with colleague Mark Meyland from London. Jeannette has participated in research study conducted by Dr. Ingo Titze at the University of Utah on the origins of vibrato. (During this EEG study her larynx was wired with electrodes). She has conducted many master classes at conservatories and universities including, Virginia State and Syracuse NATS, Loyola College and Towson State College in Baltimore, New York University School of Music Education (now called Steinhardt), NYC, Manhattan School of Music Jazz Department, Berklee College in Boston and Brigham Young University in Utah. She was the opening speaker at the April 2000 Conference, Science and the Singing Teacher in New York, co-sponsored by NYSTA and Mt. Sinai Medical Center's Grabscheid Voice Center. She was guest teacher-in-residence at the Houston Grand Opera for Meredith Monk, who mounted the world premier of Monk's opera "Atlas" there and has been working with Ms. Monk for over 25 years. Jeannette has lectured for the British Voice Association in London, and taught master classes for West End theater performers at the Actors' Center there.Jeannette participated in the Voice Institute as Music Theater Studies Specialist under the direction of Dr. Kathryn Barnes-Burroughs at The University of Southern Alabama She also participated there in research with the late pedagogue Oren Brown that was published in 2004.
In 2005, Jeannette was guest lecturer at the Centro de Estudios da Voz in Sao Paulo, Brazil, under the direction of Dr. Mara Behlau. She was a founding member of the Professional Development Course for NYSTA , creating the first music theater repertoire segment with colleague Robert Marks, and has presented master classes for East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and for the Michigan NATS Chapter State Convention. She was a Master Judge in the Savannah Music Festival "American Traditions" Competition in 2006, and conducted master classes and lectures for Oklahoma NATS and for the NATS National Convention in Minneapolis.
Jeannette continues to perform as both a classical soprano and a cabaret artist. Her most recent appearances in New York were for the Holy Apostles Community Chorus, under the direction of Jack Eppler, where she sang exerpts from Handel's "Messiah" and Messien's "Messe" and at Danny's Castaway, under the music direction of Robert Marks, in her own one-woman show.
JEANNETTE L. LoVETRI
Curriculum Vitae - 2007
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