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Jeannette L. LoVetri

Soprano

Member Bio

Private voice studio since 1972.   Singing Voice Specialist: New York Eye and Ear Infirmary; Columbia Presbyterian Medical Center; and Grabscheid Voice Center, Mt. Sinai Hospital, NYC.   Consultant, Brooklyn Youth Chorus Academy.  Master Clinician: Music Theater Vocal Pedagogy, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, Virgina & University of So. Alabama, Mobile.   Faculty: Care of The Professional Voice, Phil., Pennsylvania.   Author numerous articles Journal of Voice; Journal of Singing, other publications.  Past President: The New York Singing Teachers' Association.   Students on Broadway, network television, film, concerts.

Current Activities

  • June 2007: Master Teacher, NATS Intern Program, June 12-22, 2007, Charlotte NC.

  • June 2007: Music Theater Repertoire, Professional Development Program, NYSTA

  • July 2007: Cross Choral Training, Brooklyn Youth Chorus, July 9-13, 2007 New York University, New York NY.

  • July, 2007: Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, Virginia, July 21-29, 2007. Nine day intensive for teachers of singing of commercial Music. Credit available. Certification in Somatic Voicework℠ The LoVetri Method, available. For further information please visit Shenandoah University or contact: Kathyn Green at kgreen@su.edu
  • October, 2007: Private Teaching, Berkelee College of Music June 12-22, 2007, Boston Mass, Contact Kris Adams

  • November, 2007: Contemporary/Broadway Vocal Pedagogy Seminar (mini Level one Somatic Voicework™), November 16-17, Kresge Auditorium, Larsen Fine Arts Center, Olivet Nazarene University, Department of Music, One University Avenue, Bourbonnais, IL 60914, Conact: Dr. Neal Woodruff

  • January, 2008:, Vocal Pedagogy in the New Millennium, A Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Approach (Level one Somatic Voicework™), January 25-27 College of Visual & Performing Arts, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth, 285 Old Westport Road, North Dartmouth, MA 02747. For more information please view the Brochure and contact Marcelle Gauvin

  • April, 2008: Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Featuring Somatic Voicework™( The LoVetri Method (Level one Somatic Voicework™), Albion College, Music Department, 611 East Porter Street, Albion, Michigan, Contact: Robert Doyle

  • July, 2008: Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute, Shenandoah Conservatory, Winchester, Virginia, July 19-27 for Levels 1,2 and 3, Nine day intensive for teachers of singing of commercial Music. Credit available. Certification in Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method, available. For more information please visit Shenandoah University or contact: Kathyn Green at kgreen@su.edu
    Also see our page vocal pedagogy Institute for more information and pictures

Member recordings

Member publications

  • Melton, Joan, PhD: "Singing in Musical Theatre: The Training of Singers and Actors". New York: Allworth, 2007. (Chapter in Book)
  • LoVetri, J, "Treatment of Injured Singers and Professional Speakers: The Singer/Actor, Singer/Dancer, and Singer/Musician". In: Benninger, M. S. and Murry, T. The Performer's Voice, San Diego, CA, Plural Publishing, 2006: 209-218
  • Barnes-Burroughs, K, Watts C, Brown, O.L. and LoVetri, J: "The Visual/Kinesthetic Effects of Melodic Contour in Musical Notation as it Affects Vocal Timbre in Singers of Classical and Music Theater Repertoire" Journal of Voice, 2005; 19(3): 411-419.
  • LoVetri, J: "Female Chest Voice," Vocal Pedagogy Column of Richard Miller, Journal of Singing. 2003; 60(2): 161-164.
  • LoVetri, J, and Weekly, E. M: "Contemporary Commercial Music: Who's Teaching What in Non-Classical Vocal Music." Journal of Voice. 2003; 17(2): 207-216.
  • Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Survey: Who's Teaching What in Nonclassical Music; Jeannette L. LoVetri and Edrie Means Weekly, Journal of Voice, Vol 12, No 2, 2003
  • Contemporary Commercial Music; More than one way to use the vocal tract; by Jeannette LoVetri, Journal of Singing Jan/Feb 2002
  • A Reflex Resonance Model of Vocal Vibrato; Titze, Story, Smith, & Long, Acoustical Society of America, Feb 2002. **J. LoVetri research associate
  • "Alternative Medical Therapy" Use Among Singers: Prevalence and Implications for the Medical Care of the Singer; Jason B. Surow and Jeannette LoVetri, Journal of Voice, Vol. 14, No 3, 2000
  • Preliminary Study on the Ability of Trained Singers to Control the Intrinsic and Extrinsic Laryngeal Musculature; Jeannette LoVetri, Susan Lesh, Peak Woo, Journal of Voice, Vol 13, No 2, 1999.
  • LoVetri, J: "Preventing Vocal Abuse in Non-Classical Singers", In: Bejjani, F. Current Research in Arts Medicine, Chicago, MEDArt International, Inc.; 1993: 519-521.
  • Comparisons of Pharynx, Source, Formant and Pressure Characteristics in Operatic and Musical Theatre Singing; Johan Sundberg, Patricia Gramming, & Jeannette LoVetri, Speech Transmission Laboratory, Quarterly Progress and Status Report, Royal Institute of Technology, Stockhom, Sweden, October 15, 1991.

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