JEANNETTE L. LoVETRI
BIOGRAPHY - 2007
Jeannette LoVetri is in demand as one of the world's top specialists in training singers for contemporary commercial music 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 is currently Consultant to and Faculty of the Steindhardt School of Education at New York University and has also taught at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts. She is also currently Adjunct Professor at Teacher's College at Columbia University as well. 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 is an award winning ensemble 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 three other Shenandoah Faculty 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 holds the office of 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 in liaison with noted medical and clinical specialists retraining injured singing voices, and has worked as a consultant for Grabscheid Voice Center at Mt. Sinai Hospital, The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary, and at Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center, all 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 The Swedish Institute of Technology's 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. 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.
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 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 20 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 was twice 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, NYC, Manhattan School of Music Jazz Department, Berklee College in Boston and Brigham Young University. 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.
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 guest lecturer for NYSTA for the Professional Development Program on Music Theater Repertoire, taught through Columbia Teachers College in NYC; and has given presented master classes for East Carolina University in Greenville, NC, and for the Michigan NATS Chapter State Convention. She will be a Master Judge in the Savannah Music Festival "American Traditions" Competition in 2006, and will also be conducting master classes and lectures for Oklahoma NATS and for the NATS National Convention in Minneapolis.
JEANNETTE L. LoVETRI
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Curriculum Vitae - 2007
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