LOVETRI INSTITUTE FOR SOMATIC VOICEWORK™

Online Tuition: $350.00/participant & $25.00 required course book

Limited automatic payment installments are available. It is preferred that participants pay via credit or debit card through the online registration, however checks are accepted. Please contact the BW Community Arts School office to arrange for this.

Online Re-certification: Participants who have completed Level I  and plan to retake the course are eligible for a discounted rate of $200.00.
To obtain the discount code, email cas@bw.edu and indicate where and when you took Level I previously.

Registration Deadline: January 8, 2023.
To receive your Level I Somatic Voicework™ hard copy course book prior to the course, register by December 20, 2022.

See below for Continuing Education credit information.

Level I is the first of a three-tiered course of LoVetri’s method, Somatic Voicework™. The method is comprehensive but accessible to everyone from singers not yet teaching to those with decades of experience. Vocal function is clearly explained, and the exercises presented are designed to empower teachers to create solutions for a wide variety of pedagogical needs. Since 21st-century music continues to diversify, the need to understand vocal function, vocal health and voice science has never been greater, and new tools are needed to supplement those that were used for the past two hundred years. These tools are found in Somatic Voicework™. There is no special jargon, nothing to prepare, and it avoids any direct manipulation of the structures in the throat. It has the honor of having had 12 nationally recognized laryngologists as lecturers and four highly acknowledged speech language pathologists as faculty over the past decade. The training days are filled with information, demonstration and application balanced with camaraderie, networking and social interaction among participants at all levels.

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 1 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.