Classical Voice Faculty: Jeannette LoVetri
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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 for both the School of Education and Tisch School of the Arts at New York University. Jeannette is also Director of Vocal Studies for the Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy (BYC). BYC's Concert Chorus is an award winning ensemble and has performed nationally, at Carnegie and Avery Fisher Halls, with The New York Philharmonic, on the Today Show, Saturday Night Live, and with Paul Simon, Judy Collins, Brandy and many other orchestras and celebrities.
Jeannette is a Past President of The New York Singing Teachers' Association (NYSTA). She is 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 only 40 teachers of singing from the premier classical conservatories and universities and in private practice. 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 and Ms. Lovetri is its youngest member.
She has worked in liaison with noted medical and clinical specialists retraining injured singing voices, and is currently a consultant at the Grabscheid Voice Center at Mt. Sinai Hospital in New York. 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 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, her student, 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. She was guest lecturer at Freie Universistat in Berlin, addressing the Department of Speech, Audiology and Phoniatrics. 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 master classes for the Virginia NATS Chapter annual meeting, The Syracuse Chapter of NATS, Loyola College and Towson State College in Baltimore, New York University School of Music Education, Brigham Young University in Utah and Shenandoah Conservatory in Virginia. 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. In March /April of 2001 she was guest teacher/lecturer for the British Voice Association's Annual Conference and for the Hamburg University Hospital Department of Otolaryngology in Germany with London colleague, Mark Meylan In summer of 2003 she will be teaching on the faculty of the National Center for Voice and Speech in Denver in the prestigious Vocology Course. She will teach The University of Southern Alabama in an exciting workshop which is also a research study comparing classical singers, trained by noted pedagogue, Oren Brown, to music theater singers, whom she will train. Following that Ms. LoVetri will present the first ever comprehensive vocal pedagogy courses for musical theater offered for credit at Shenandoah University in Virginia.
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