JEANNETTE L. LoVETRI
BIOGRAPHY - 2002

Jeannette LoVetri is Founder and Director of The Voice Workshop in New York City and has been teaching singing since 1972. She has had students in all walks of musical life from rock and roll to opera. Her students have appeared in leading roles on Broadway, in shows ranging from 42 Street to Rent, on network TV, in film, and in national tours, as well as in leading concert houses including Carnegie Hall. She was on the voice faculty of New York University for seven years and is the Voice Specialist for the Brookyn Youth Chorus, an award winning children's chorus. She is the creator of Somatic Voicework(sm), a body-based voice training program.

Jeannette is a specialist in retraining injured singers and is a consultant at Mt. Sinai Hospital's Grabscheid Voice Center in New York City. She has participated in voice research and is the author or co-author of several papers published in the Journal of Voice. In 1999 she received the Van Lawrence Fellowship, given by NATS and The Voice Foundation for demonstrated excellence in the use of voice science in voice teaching.

She has done lectures, seminars, workshops and master classes on healthy commercial and Broadway singing throughout the United States and internationally in Europe and Australia. She is a Past President of The New York Singing Teachers' Association and a member of The American Academy of Teachers of Singing.