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Compiler's note: Jeannette LoVetri is Visiting-Artist-in-Residence at Shenandoah Conservatory and the founder of the first program on Contemporary Commercial Music (formerly called "non-classical") at the Conservatory, which is in Winchester, Virginia. The Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy Institute at Shenandoah was created in 2003 to address the needs of twenty-first century singing and teaching. The three-level courses offered during the Institute are called Somatic Voicework® The LoVetri Method, and are required in both the master of music and doctoral programs at Shenandoah. The summer Institute has attracted 500 people from ten countries and almost all the United States and has garnered accolades from speech language pathologists, choral conductors, music educators, singing teachers, and many professional singers from Broadway, opera, rock, jazz, and other styles. The Level I program of LoVetri's work is also offered annually at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth in the Department of Jazz and at the University of Michigan at the medical center in the Department of Speech Language Pathology. The program at the University of Michigan is the only program of vocal pedagogy to be offered in a university hospital setting.
LoVetri is in demand as one of the world's top specialists in training singers for contemporary commercial music (CCM) of ail styles. Her expertise has been recognized worldwide through invitations for lectures at national and international symposia, seminars, and professional congresses, and for master classes at universities and conservatories.
Jeannette LoVetri is a faculty member at Drexel University College of Medicine, a position awarded her by Robert T. Sataloff, making her one of the few singing teachers in the world on a medical college faculty. In addition, she is a member of the Scientific Advisory Board of The Voice Foundation in Philadelphia. LoVetri is author of several articles of voice research published in the journal of Voice and pedagogy articles published in the Journal of Singing. She is the author of a chapter in the book The Performer's Voice edited by Thomas Murry and Michael Benniger, published by Plural Publishing.
Those interested in pursuing greater depth on CCM styles may attend LoVetri's workshops at several major universities. A more complete biography, a description of Somatic Voicework(TM) The LoVetri Method, and listing of published research may be found at: http://www.thevoiceworkshop. com/index.html.