About Jeanie LoVetri
Jeanie LoVetri is a recognized expert on Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) Vocal Pedagogy.
Jeanie created this term in 2000 and the first college course for CCM in 2002. She has taught thousands of singing teachers, and has presented at speech language pathology conferences, medical voice conferences, international educational organizations and scientific symposia since 1994.
Jeanie has been on five college faculties as a singing teacher and is the recipient of the Van Lawrence Fellowship bestowed by The National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) and the Voice Foundation. She is author of 15 articles in both pedagogy and science in the Journal of Voice and The Journal of Singing.
Trained as a classical soprano, LoVetri began performing leading roles in musical theater at age 17, and came to New York City in 1975 where she sang at Lincoln Center, Rockefeller Center, Riverside Church, Marble Collegiate Church, at the Henry Street Settlement Theater, the late “Village Gate” in New York’s Greenwich Village and in classical and CCM repertoire up until 2020. LoVetri’s singing has been called versatile, unique and expressive by The New York Times.
Jeanie encountered voice science in 1978 at Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice sponsored by the Voice Foundation where she is now on the Advisory Board.
Her ground-breaking work has had a broad impact on the profession at large, leading the way to significant changes in pedagogy. She initiated multiple topics that have since become standard practice in teaching across the globe.
Jeanie’s students have appeared on and Off Broadway, at Carnegie Hall, at Lincoln Center and at concert halls, on TV, in film and theater and on recordings and at international venues all over the world but also locally in small churches, schools and auditoriums throughout the USA and internationally. Many of her professional students are Grammy and Tony winners and are recognized in a wide array of styles and are also teachers of singing.
Jeanie has lectured and presented at many colleges and universities and at The British Voice Association (BVA), Pan European Voice Conference (PEVOC), National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), Australian Association of Teachers of Singing (ANATS), as well as at Centro Estudo da Voz in São Paulo, and in hospitals and medical centers in the USA, Canada, South America, Australia and Europe and presented at the newly formed Israeli Association of Teachers of Voice in 2023.
Jeanie is a reviewer for the Journal of Voice and the Australian Voice journal. She shares from her 54 years of teaching and training all that she has learned in the hope that it will inspire others to grow and succeed at accomplishing their own singing goals.
She is the founder of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ at Baldwin Wallace University Conservatory in the Community Arts School and is now retired and acting as a Consultant for them.
Somatic Voicework™ is a method of vocal pedagogy that has been taught at universities in the USA, Canada, South America and Australia.
Contact Jeanie for enquiries about her Musical Theater consulting, lecturing, masterclasses, workshops, or her consulting to singers and speakers.