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Happy Holidays To All!

     This has been a truly wonderful year. Jeanie began 2018 presenting Level I and II to 80 Brazilian teachers and singers, hosted by Vocal São Paulo, and where the warmth of the Brazilians, as always, melted her heart. In February, she went to Kansas as keynote clinician for the NATS state chapter conference, thanks to the invitation and hospitality of Dr. Joe Perniciaro.
(Photographed Above: Jeanie LoVetri with participants at Level I & II Somatic Voicework™ training in São Paulo, Brazil)
(Photographed Below: Jeanie LoVetri with participants of Teacher Training & Support Days in the Baltimore/DC area)
     In April, she did a Teacher Training and Teacher Support Group in Zeeland, Michigan, with the assistance of Jeff Costello, in spite of the resistance of Mother Nature and her snowstorm emergency! Jeff and his son, Zach, managed to salvage the weekend with live streaming...a new experience for Jeanie. Shortly after that, she did another Teacher Training Day/Teacher Support Group weekend coordinated by Jennifer Suess and hosted by Mary Greysock and hospitality hosts Rosanne and Denny Fraley in Baltimore/DC.
(Photographed Below: Jeanie LoVetri with Simon Estes)
     In June, she was at the Symposium: Care of the Professional Voice, sponsored by the Voice Foundation, in Philadelphia, for her 40th annual visit, to present research done with Jocelyn Medina and to sing at the Gala in front of honored guest Simon Estes and American Academy of Singing Teachers colleague, George Shirley (also an honoree from a previous year's Symposium). In July, Jeanie did the second year in residence at Baldwin Wallace University's Community Music School with her LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ where there was sell-out attendance and teachers from all over the USA and Canada and 5 foreign countries.
     On a personal level, in September, she and Jerry survived having the floors of her apartment ripped out and replaced, while living there, and subsequently slowly slogging through restoring things to normal box by box since right after Thanksgiving. The new floors, however, are beautiful and so worth it!
     In January 2019, Jeanie (with Jerry) departs for the University of Southern Queensland in Toowoomba, Australia, for the first-ever LoVetri Institute of Somatic Voicework™ there. She is excited to be returning to Oz where there are many friends and looks forward to meeting new ones as well. Registration is still open and we look forward to having you join us.
     Plans are almost settled for trips in 2019 including one to Houston, one to Israel, one to Spain and possibly one to Las Vegas. We will keep you posted on these events as details are finalized. 
     We are so excited to announce our next online course, Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™, which will be starting in February 2019. Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™ will explore working with children & teens, working with adult amateurs, using Somatic Voicework™ with Classical singers, and working with elite belters. This course is open to anyone interested in Somatic Voicework™, no previous Somatic Voicework™ certification is required. For more information or to register, click here.
     Jeanie would like to thank everyone for the help and support throughout the year and for participating in all the various work she has done locally and globally. We are most grateful for the wonderful teachers who are using Somatic Voicework™ in their approach with students and are thankful for everything that continues to grow and evolve in sharing Somatic Voicework™ with the vocal world.  She would especially like to thank our newsletter editor and social media director, Billy Gollner, and our webmaster, Piotr Zielinski, for their work this past year, and all the faculty in her courses. Bravi tutti!
     We wish everyone a joyous holiday and a happy, healthy, prosperous and abundant 2019......the last year of the second decade of the new millennium. 
Click here to register for the first ever
LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™
 
in Australia

 

The LoVetri Institute in residence at
The University of Southern Queensland

January 11th to 19th, 2019
January 11th to13th: Level I
January 14th to 16th: Level II
January 17th to 19th: Level III

We are very excited to announce our next online course,
 Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™. 
This course is open to all participants, not just those who have completed Somatic Voicework™ training.

 Here is the course information:

Special Topics in Somatic Voicework™

Week One: Working with Children & Teens
Week Two: Working with Amateur Adults
Week Three: Somatic Voicework™ in a Classical Context
Week Four: Working with Elite Belters

Dates: Monday February 4th, 11th, 18th, 25th
Time: 7:00 PM to 9:00 PM EST

Cost: 
For Somatic Voicework™ Graduates of at least Level I: $200
For those yet to complete any Somatic Voicework™ Certification: $250

Each week will begin with Jeanie working with two singers while teachers observe (30 minutes with each student). Jeanie will then discuss the functional approaches and challenges in working with each group; this will be a mixture of traditional academic lecture from Jeanie and dialogue amongst participants. Each week will end with a question and answer period. 

All courses are recorded and archived so participants can complete the course at their own leisure; participants are not required to complete the course in real time. Recordings will not be posted publicly and are used solely for the educational purposes of people involved in the online classes. Videos are posted within 24-48 hours of each week's class wrapping. 

For more details and to register: click here!
This January, you’re headed back to Toowoomba, Australia with Jeanie LoVetri for the first LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ in Australia, what can we expect from this institute?      
     This year is particularly exciting, as it is the second time Jeanie is presenting her full course in Australia. The faculty has a great chemistry and we each bring a different skill set to the table to support Jeanie’s work.  Heather Keens is joining us this year and will be giving a Masterclass in Music Theater and Melissa Forbes and I will both be present on jazz and pop.  We have a lot of repeat attendees this year, as well as friends, colleagues and students of former grads, so we’re going to have a lot of enthusiastic participants!

You’re also planning an Australian tour, can you tell us more details about that? 
     I will be performing shows in Toowoomba, Brisbane, the Sunshine Coast and debuting in Melbourne playing two shows at Paris Cat and one at Jazz Lab. It is important for me to try and make music wherever I go, so I reached out to get a few gigs booked. I had no idea I’d have such an enthusiastic response, so I have a full week long tour set up, as well as radio and print media interviews and articles. I can’t wait to work with some Aussie musicians!

As someone who has served as faculty on Somatic Voicework™ teacher trainings and has worked with Jeanie in NYC for quite some time, what keeps bringing you back to Somatic Voicework™?
      Basically I keep coming back because it WORKS.  Every time I interact with Jeanie and her course materials my singing immediately improves and my teaching becomes more efficient and effective.  This work is all about listening intuitively and having a structured framework for working with students. It is so instinctive to me now, that’s is woven into every aspect of my work in music.  My students are so appreciative of this work and often tell me that they’ve never felt so supported and improved as much as they have in my studio. That’s Somatic Voicework™ in action!


You’re about to launch Level 2 of your online piano course, what can you tell us about the continued success of level 1 and what to expect from level 2? 

     Piano Skills for Singers grew out of my private studio, after teaching dozens of singers and voice teachers how to better improve their piano playing. I have taught many members of the Somatic Voicework™ community,  and I recognized the universal lack of piano training in many academic environments. I developed an online course as a way for people to study at their pace in their space and for a very cost effective investment.  
     Level 1 teaches the basics – posture, hand position, five finger exercises and how to read simple chord symbols and use chords to create basic accompaniments. It’s perfect for people with more limited skills or who may not have had formal lessons in a while.
     Level 2 is the full soup-to-nuts what every singer/singing teacher needs to know at the piano. I cover technical skills like posture and hand position, I teach how to play the 5 most commonly used voice exercises in all 12 keys, how to play 11 different chord qualities through all the keys and 10 different ways to create satisfying accompaniments using chords. In addition, there is a 9-part section on sight reading and an entire section devoted to advice on how to protect your mind, voice and spirit while running a private studio. It’s over 6 hours of instruction and 150 pages of course material!
I’m offering a special $70 discount through December 31st by using coupon code PRESALE.
To register for Piano Skills for Singers, click here!
 
Please check out more from Brenda Earle Stokes!

Performing Website: www.brendaearle.com
Teaching Website: www.pianoandvoicewithbrenda.com
Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/BrendaEarleStokes
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCwf2wpUkpnQ5CHXQsIZbBXA?view_as=subscriber
Brenda's CD Baby Page: https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/brendaearlestokes

 
 
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