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Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method Teachers' Association

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What is Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method?

Somatic Voicework ™ The LoVetri Method

is an organized method of vocal training for Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) styles, (those styles that used to be called “non-classical) based upon somatic (physical) awareness and aural discernment. The training is completed in three levels.

 

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November webinars: Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™ with Jeanie LoVetri

Join us for Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™ with Jeanie LoVetri, a November 2024 Webinar Series. Topics include:

  • Understanding What You Hear: Interpreting Vocal Sound Functionally
  • Balancing the Voice As A First Step: Determining Optimal Vocal Function
  • Breathing and Posture: Partners in Coordination
  • Strength and Stamina: Developing The Ability to Sing for a Long Time at a Loud Volume

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Somatic Voicework™ Labs in November and December 2024

People are always asking for two things:

“How can I get to work with Jeanie?” and, “Can Jeanie talk us through what she’s hearing and why she’s doing what she’s doing?” These new Somatic Voicework™ labs present just that!

  • 17th November 2024
  • 8th December 2024

Each Lab runs via Zoom from 1:30pm to 6:00pm EST with a half hour break in the middle. 

Jeanie will work informally with participants one on one (or in small groups) on issues of their  choice–like a mini lesson. There will also be opportunity to ask Jeanie questions along the way. 

Places are limited and there are registration deadlines – register now to avoid disappointment.

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July 2024 LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ Summer Session

The Summer 2024 session of the LoVetri Institute will be held in person at Baldwin Wallace University near Cleveland Ohio. Participants must complete each level before proceeding to the next, and advanced programs are available only to graduates of Levels I – III. 

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Daily Schedules

Class times for all courses* will run from 9:00 a.m. to 8:30 p.m. each day with breaks for lunch and dinner.
*with the exception of Level III, which will end by 2 p.m. on July 21 & Vocal Health Intensive for Singing Teachers which will end mid-afternoon on July 20; participants will have the option to stay for the remaining sessions of Level III through July 21 at 2 p.m. 

Tuition

  • $475.00 – Course tuition for each Level and all Advanced Courses
  • $450.00 – Early Bird discounted rate per course is available until April 10, 2024

Participants who are re-taking a Level or Advanced Course qualify for a Re-Certification discounted course tuition of $400.00; with an Early Bird discounted rate of $375.00 until April 10.

Limited automatic payment installments are available with credit card through the online registration.

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About the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™

The LoVetri Institute is offered exclusively in partnership with Baldwin Wallace University. Sessions are held either online or on the Baldwin Wallace campus in January and the summer of each year. The LoVetri Institute offers three tiered courses, each required before the next, to teach Somatic Voicework™. Learners must complete the courses in order, but you may repeat each level if desired. After completing all three base levels, learners may move on to advanced programs.

Participants must complete each level before proceeding to the next, and advanced programs are available only to graduates of Levels I – III.

Currently, only Level I is offered during the January session. Levels I through III and advanced programs are offered in the summer session.

Base Levels of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™

The base levels of the LoVetri Institute include:

Level I

Level I is called “Basic Application” and includes the following: introduction to functional principles of voice science and medicine. It guides singing teachers to enhance their own qualities as the “building blocks” of The LoVetri Method. It looks at terminology and at objectively describing vocal behavior. It also addresses attitude, intention and appropriateness of the interaction between student and teacher. Level I states that the teacher must have a clear intention for the vocal exercise when it is given. The teacher must know (a) either what is missing and needs to be added or (b) what is wrong and needs to be corrected, such that the student’s singing will somehow improve. It rests on vocal function, vocal health, and on traditional pedagogy, but it is also meant to help singers be marketable. There will be a vocal health lecture to instruct the teacher how to listen functionally, to hear aural distinctions and relate them to responses.

Level I Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to describe methods for effective communication with singers and singing teachers.
  • Participants will be able to describe musical vocal production, the way in which stylistic parameters impact voice production, the relationship between speaking and singing voice production, music industry terminology, and industry expectations for voicing style and vocal load.
  • Participants will demonstrate that they are able to listen “functionally” to singers’ voices both from a vocal health and a musical perspective, including the distinction between hypo- and hyper-functional singing in Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM).
  • Participants will demonstrate the ability to assess the intention/purpose for any given sung vocal exercise.

Level II

Level II is called “Advanced Application” and is largely devoted to exploring how singing exercises work, what they do and why. It examines the age, background, and desires of the students and how those things relate to the teaching process. It enhances the teacher’s ability to evaluate the students in terms of vocal behavior and aptitude. In Level II, the teacher acquires greater skill in choosing exercises that are appropriate and adjusting them to meet the level of ability of the student at any given point. There is also greater exploration of the many CCM styles, examining performance aspects that may impact vocal health. The main objective of Level II is understanding how to use vocal exercises functionally.

Level II Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to describe teachers’ rationales for choosing specific voice exercises in the singing environment and also how to evaluate the functional appropriateness of those exercises for individual patients.
  • Participants will be able to evaluate singers’ vocal responses in the context of age, background, past vocal training, and natural aptitude.
  • Participants will be able to verbalize at least two distinct ways in which specific Contemporary Commercial Music singing styles interact with vocal health.
  • Participants will demonstrate basic competence in guiding a sample student through a sequence of Somatic Voicework™ singing exercises with supervision by LoVetri Institute faculty.

Level III

Level III addresses “Repertoire, Problem Solving, and Voice Medicine”. It will feature a music theater expert who will conduct a master class in audition skills with chosen participants. Level III also touches upon acting for Music Theater and provides an excellent and quick approach to teach pitch matching for anyone with that problem. It promotes interdisciplinary interchange, i.e., the need for fellowship with Speech Language Pathologists and Medical Doctors. It also supports the idea that teachers should acquire the ability to read, understand, and possibly even undertake research of interest to those in voice disciplines.

Level III Learning Objectives:

  • Participants will be able to verbalize at least two considerations for communicating and collaborating with their patients’ singing teachers to support their progress during therapy and transition back to the lesson environment on discharge
  • Participants will be able to state at least two potential impacts of vocal disease processes, injuries, medications, and phonosurgery on singing voice function.
  • Participants will be able to verbalize at least two physiologic voicing demands that are specific to singing at the professional level in the Broadway environment.

Advanced Programs

After completing the base levels of the LoVetri Institute, learners may continue with these optional, advanced programs.

Note that not all programs are offered in every session.

Working with Transgender or Gender Non-Binary Voices

Transgender and gender non-binary clients are seeking services from speech and language pathologists and from teachers of singing with increasing frequency, both for the singing voice and the speaking voice. This three-day intensive course is open to all graduates of Level III of Somatic Voicework, regardless of areas of professional practice or knowledge levels of teaching and therapy techniques for the transgender singing and speaking voice.

This course will combine lectures, demonstrations, and videos with opportunities for experiential learning. Guest lectures and demonstrations will be given by transgender, gender non-binary, and cisgender individuals. Topics include appropriate language usage, best practice standards for teachers and therapists, and becoming an ally to the transgender and gender non-binary community. Dr. Kozan will also discuss special concerns as a cisgender person providing services to transgender and gender non-binary clients, challenges faced by trans and gender non-binary singers and speakers, experiences using Somatic Voicework principles with clients, use of voice therapy techniques, and techniques for helping change the client’s internal self-talk. Kozan will present excerpts from The Singing Voice chapter (authored by Kozan and Sandi Hammond in Adler, Hirsch and Pickering’s Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender/Gender Diverse Client: A Comprehensive Clinical Guide, Third Ed., 2019). Time for questions will be scheduled and welcomed during each session throughout the three-day course.

Vocal Health Intensive for Singing Teachers

This is an intensive vocal health course for graduates of Level III of Somatic Voicework™ in any year prior to 2024. Dr. Milstein will cover a review of basic vocal anatomy and physiology, refreshing the definitions of terms used in clinical and medical discussion of vocal problems. It will present typical problems, through audio and visual examples, of various types of vocal pathology and vocal illness or injury and help singing teachers identify their student’s auditory cues for suspicious vocal qualities and behaviors. Recommendations for referring to a voice care team will be discussed, as well as suggestions on how to interact with these medical professionals to assist in the vocal health of the students. Other topics will be addressed at his discretion. Singing teachers will be free to interact with Dr. Milstein to clarify various issues or questions.

When Science Meets Soul: Level I – Introduction to Soul Ingredients®

Soul Ingredients is a voice teaching method created by Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin for developing the voice while fostering personal style and soul expression. This methodology uses a strategic combination of science-based voice pedagogy and standard pedagogic concepts found within the oral teaching tradition of African American folk-based music styles (gospel, jazz, soul, hip-hop) to develop unique artists and musical storytellers regardless of musical genre. Through this uniquely designed methodology, the historical, artistic and improvisational techniques of African American music merge with science based vocal technique in an exploration of how each individual performer’s physical, emotional and cultural perceptions can expand their artistry.

Soul Ingredients is voice pedagogy according to science; voice training according to style; and artist development rooted in personal soul expression.

When Science Meets Soul Level I: Introduction to Soul ingredients is a three-day intensive course that introduces professional voice users, teachers, and SLP to a vocabulary for teaching music and working with singers and musical styles rooted in, and influenced by, African American folk-based music styles and music traditions. Each day presents a focused area in Soul Ingredients methodology: Developing the Sound, Developing the Style, and Developing the Story.

When Science Meets Soul: Level II – Developing the Artist

Soul Ingredients is a voice teaching method created by Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin for developing the voice while fostering personal style and soul expression. This methodology uses a strategic combination of science-based voice pedagogy and standard pedagogic concepts found within the oral teaching tradition of African American folk-based music styles (gospel, jazz, soul, hip-hop) to develop unique artists and musical storytellers regardless of musical genre. Through this uniquely designed methodology, the historical, artistic and improvisational techniques of African American music merge with science based vocal technique in an exploration of how each individual performer’s physical, emotional and cultural perceptions can expand their artistry.

Soul Ingredients is voice pedagogy according to science; voice training according to style; and artist development rooted in personal soul expression.

When Science Meets Soul Level II provides next-level strategies for developing authentic creative vocal artists. Using the Soul Ingredients method, teachers and singers learn to use a customizable framework that identifies parameters of excellence that are both unique for each student yet culturally viable for the style the artist performs. Fostering next-level performers, When Science Meets Soul Level II explores the voice, the sound, and the story from the perspective of intermediate to advanced level singers and creative musical artists.

 

Registration open for January 2024 Somatic Voicework™ Lab

People are always asking for two things: how do they get to work with Jeanie? And, can Jeanie talk us through what she’s hearing and why she’s doing what she’s doing?

These new Somatic Voicework™ labs present just that!

Get in quick to register now as there are only 12 places for full participants: https://somaticvoicework.com/registration-for-somatic-voicework-lab/

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Testimonials

  • Somatic Voicework™ Testimonials
    “I have worked with Jeanie LoVetri and Somatic Voicework™ for twenty years and have found her method to be incredibly efficient and scientifically sound. I have been able to consciously work on technique while continuing to develop my artistry and my personal style. I credit Jeannie with the freedom I feel when I sing.” Luciana Souza, ...
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SOMATIC VOICEWORK™ TEACHERS

Somatic Voicework™ teachers believe that the body and the voice are not limited and that it is possible to train anyone who wishes to sing in a variety of styles in a healthy and responsible manner. They are caring, excellence-driven, live in the USA and 10 foreign countries, and have varied backgrounds in:

Jazz ~ Musical Theatre ~ Pop/Rock ~ Classical ~ Gospel ~ Choral ~ World Music

Many hold masters and doctoral degrees and are in positions of responsibility in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) at local, state, and regional levels.

Many are heads of departments in voice at universities and conservatories, published authors of books, research papers and pedagogy articles in voice and music journals.

Many are acknowledged professionally as singers, having performed in major venues in all styles of music all over the world.

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