Jeannette LoVetri

It often strikes me that there is very little by way of common sense in the singing teaching community. So much has been handed down...

The idea that we should have smooth transitions between registers is an old one. Most classical pedagogies espoused the idea that smooth transitions were a...

Many years ago, when I was about 16, my mother attended some kind of “women’s gathering” at which she sat next to someone she did...

I wish I had a crystal ball to look 200 or 250 years into the future. I would love to know what singing will be...

Over the last 100+ years, music has changed an enormous amount. What someone would have heard in 1912 bears very little resemblance to what he...

Very occasionally, I encounter someone who “wants a few lessons” to (a) get a gig, (b) go to an audition, (c) get into college, (d)...

Singing training is never finished. Like life, it goes on. When you are very young, you begin by learning the basics. You have to study...

When a singer says to me “I can’t” I believe her. If I go to a dance class, and I tell the dance teacher, “I...

The importance of science in vocal pedagogy. We are not going to go backwards. We are not going to stop investigating how the body makes...

It might be hard to believe but it was way back in 1983 when the New York Singing Teachers’ Association presented the first workshop on...