Masterclass: Jeanie LoVetri

Join the Jazz Studies department for a masterclass with Jeanie LoVetri. Jeanie will work with current students and also give an introduction to Somatic Voicework.

Jeannette LoVetri, known to her friends as Jeanie, has been teaching singing for almost 52 years. She is a recognized leader and expert in Contemporary Commercial Music – or all musical styles that were formerly referred to as “non-classical.” She has been working with professional singers since 1980 and been awarded the Van Lawrence Fellowship by the Voice Foundation and The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS). She has twice been a Master Teacher for NATS and the keynote for the Vocology Institute of Dr. Ingo Titze. She was keynote speaker at the conference sponsored by the University of Michigan Medical School; The First and Third Musical Theater Conference in Sydney, Australia; a lecturer at Duke University Medical School, and at the Stimmklink for Professional Voice in Hamburg, Germany run by Dr. Markus Hess. She is on the Advisory Board of the Voice Foundation, is a member of the American Academy of Teachers of Singing, is a former President of the New York Singing Teachers’ Association, and is Artist-in-Residence at Baldwin Wallace University in their Conservatory’s Community Arts School at the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ each year in July. She has taught and presented at the PEVOC conference in Europe, at the Fall Voice Conference in the USA, and the Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice many times. She has also taught or presented in Stockholm, Copenhagen, London, Berlin, Hamburg, Barcelona, Rio de Janiero, Sao Paulo, Santiago, Bogota, Sydney, Brisbane and Perth. She has presented in Vancouver, Edmonton and Toronto, Canada and throughout the USA. Her students have Grammy awards, Tony nominations and many other recognitions. She has worked with Meredith Monk, a MacArthur Genius recipient, since 1982. She has published many pedagogy and science papers, written four chapters in medical textbooks, and is under contract by Compton Publishing for an upcoming book of her own. She worked for 20 years with the Brooklyn Youth Chorus and has also worked to retrain injured or recovering singers since 1999. She is well known in the jazz community with many highly recognized vocalists among those who teach using her Somatic Voicework™. She is honored to be here today.