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Faculty of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™

Faculty may vary at each session but usually include all senior faculty.

Senior Faculty

These individuals are experts in the method and are excellent examples of how this work, which started out as being unique to Jeannette LoVetri, can be used effectively by everyone. They bring decades of experience as educators and vocalists to Somatic Voicework and understand the open-hearted philosophy which brings together science and art, pedagogy and personal expression, and a trust of the body’s ability to produce beautiful, authentic sound in any voice and in any style.

Jeannette LoVetri

Jeannette LoVetri is founder and director of The Voice Workshop™, creator of Somatic Voicework™ and creator of the original course for Contemporary Commercial Music Vocal Pedagogy, which for 13 years garnered over 1200 participants from all over the USA and 12 foreign countries.The work is unique, practical, and based on voice science, vocal health, and vocal function. It has received rave reviews from vocal experts in every discipline and has had a significant influence on vocal pedagogy worldwide.

For 45 years, LoVetri has delved into every aspect of singing as both teacher and vocalist. Her studies took her to the world’s greatest voice experts and through all manner of vocal investigation. Her work with laryngologists and speech language pathologists, and her broad base of experience teaching all levels of singers from beginners to international celebrities, has allowed her to develop an approach to teaching singing that is effective with all of today’s Contemporary Commercial Music styles.

Michelle Rosen

Michelle Rosen is in her sixth year teaching musical theatre majors at Tisch School of Drama. She previously taught BFA musical theatre majors as assistant professor at Rider University, Westminster College of the Arts for seven years. She spent fifteen years teaching young people at the Grammy-winning Brooklyn Youth Chorus, and is in demand as a private teacher in her Brooklyn, NY studio. She holds a master’s degree in vocal performance from NYU Steinhardt and received the Distinguished Voice Professional certificate from the New York Singing Teachers' Association. Certified in Somatic Voicework™ The LoVetri Method since 2005, she joined the CCM Vocal Pedagogy Institute faculty in 2012 and is now Senior Faculty at the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ in residence at Baldwin Wallace University. Ms. Rosen has enjoyed a performing career in musical theatre and opera and has sung folk music and performed in a rock band. Performing credits include various settings of "The Phantom of the Opera," notably as Christine in the Lloyd Webber Phantom in Germany. Other credits include Aldonza in "Man of La Mancha", Rosabella in "The Most Happy Fella", Carrie in "Carousel", Jeanie in "The Stephen Foster Story", as well as leading roles in such operas as "The Medium" and "Dialogues of the Carmelites." She has appeared in Europe, in New York venues, in regional theatres across the country and on National Tours, and twice had the honor of singing the National Anthem at Shea Stadium.

Elizabeth "Betsy" Fiedler

Elizabeth “Betsy” Fiedler teaches music in her own private studio, and is the Director of Music at Holy Family of Nazareth Church. In addition, she is an adjunct faculty member at Mount Wachusett Community College, the Voice Consultant for the Arts Magnet at Burncoat High School, and is a soloist at local churches, colleges, and with the Greater Gardner Community Choir. Betsy enjoys performing on the stage at Theatre at the Mount and Greater Worcester Opera Company, and sings at local nursing homes. She has recorded three CDs of contemporary Christian Music. Her enthusiasm for music spills over into her teaching style and is evident in her performances. She has interest in many types of music from classical and sacred, to music theatre and jazz. Her love of learning has compelled her to seek out additional professional development and course work with the motivation of becoming the best teacher and singer possible. She holds a BS and MM in Music Education, and has completed coursework in Vocal Pedagogy. Betsy is certified in Levels I, II, and III of Somatic Voicework ™ the LoVetri Method, and is a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing, National Pastoral Musicians, and National Association for Music Education.

Faculty

Moran Cohen Talmor

Moran Cohen Talmor is an acclaimed singer and voice coach. Born and raised in Israel, with a rich background in martial-art studies, yoga, swimming, hydrotherapy Paula and Alexander techniques, Moran’s view of singing is deeply rooted in a mind-body approach.

Moran’s singing career was launched at the age of 15 when she joined a well-known Israeli A-cappella sextet advancing to the sought-after role of Israeli Defense Force performing artist. Moran’s Karate studies presented a unique invitation to train with a U.S. Karate team in Philadelphia, where she completed her 3rd degree black belt. While in Philadelphia, Moran served as the official representative singer of the Israeli Embassy in Philadelphia, and founded a program for teaching Hebrew through music which she introduced to the local Jewish community.

Upon returning to Israel, Moran recorded her debut original album “Natural Awakening", followed immediately by a second album along with the fabulous guitar artist Rami Yosifov.

Today, Moran is the creator and singer of “Both Sides”, a Joni Mitchell Tribute, which was applauded by Ms. Mitchell herself. The group was extended an open invitation by Ms. Mitchell to perform a private concert in her home, a plan stopped short by the COVID-19 virus.

At 27, Moran was introduced to voice lessons. It was only natural that her experience and knowledge in bodywork would fuse with vocal methodology. However, it was only several years after being a successful teacher in Israel that Moran was introduced to SVW, an experience Moran describes as “coming home”. Moran has been a dedicated teacher of SVW for the past 7 years managing her own private studio with dozens of students . Four years ago she founded "Calling"- a high Academy for voice in Israel. Since then, Calling has had great success, offering special programs for voice teachers based on the LoVetri Method.

Jeff Costello

Jeff Costello, BAA, M.Ed. As a vocalist, drummer, guitarist and sound engineer, Jeff has performed pop and rock music for thirty-five years (including three years in a Regional Touring Act) and has been a public school choir director for twenty-four years. He also directed a classical music church choir for ten years. In his school choirs he incorporates a great deal of Contemporary Commercial Music (CCM) and utilizes sound/recording equipment daily in his classroom. In 2018, Jeff presented How to Stage a Choir Rock Concert at the Association for Popular Music Education Conference in the Nashville area. This past January, Jeff launched the Zeeland Academy of Music, a private and small group lessons studio in a retail space in downtown Zeeland, MI, where he has lived and taught nearly his entire life.

Benjamin Czarnota

Benjamin Czarnota is currently on the voice faculties of Ashland and Heidelberg Universities. Czarnota was the Coordinator of Musical Theatre Voice at the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and a voice faculty member at the Baldwin Wallace Conservatory of Music for over ten years. Students have performed leading roles on Broadway in the casts of American Psycho, Anastasia, Godspell, Hands on a Hard Body, Kinky Boots, Les Misérables, The Lightning Thief, ONCE. Private studio members range from a Tony award-winning singing actress to a speaking actor in a one-person play portraying dozens of uniquely voiced characters across the full spectrum of gender, age, and origin.

Czarnota originated the role of Mr. Webb in the world premiere of Ned Rorem's operatic setting of the iconic Thornton Wilder play Our Town. Other notable roles include Stanley Kowalski in Previn’s A Streetcar Named Desire, Guglielmo in Così fan tutte, Schaunard in La Bohème, and Count Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro. Regional music theatre roles include the title role in Sweeney Todd, Marcus Lycus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum, Freddy in My Fair Lady, the Father in Children of Eden and, most recently, Emile de Beque in South Pacific.

Billy Gollner

Billy Gollner is a singer, musician, voice teacher, and piano teacher currently based in Vancouver, Canada. Billy recently returned to Vancouver from London, UK where he was working as a singer and voice teacher.

Billy has been working full time as a voice and music teacher since 2012. In London, Billy had the honour of teaching singing at the Urdang Academy (a London-based Performing Arts University) in their Bachelor’s of Musical Theatre Program. The program is very intensive and competitive, providing students with the requisite skills for success in London’s highly competitive West End. In addition, Billy managed his private voice studio in Vancouver, Canada, and continued to teach students from all over the world online, from London to Australia, Singapore to Alaska, Brazil to Japan.

Billy holds a Master of Arts degree from The Royal Conservatoire of Scotland in Musical Theatre Performance, a Bachelor of Music in Voice from Vancouver Community College, a Bachelor of Arts in Communications, Art, and Technology from Simon Fraser University, and a Certificate of Liberal Arts from Simon Fraser University. For his Bachelor of Music, Billy was honoured to be named the valedictorian of his graduating class. While attending Simon Fraser University, Billy received the Communications Alumni Endowment Award for excellence and creativity in writing; in addition, he was a member of the Golden Key Honour Society and on the Dean’s List.

Jamie Leonhart

Jamie Leonhart is a New York City based singer/songwriter and educator, with a focus on pop, jazz and other CCM styles. Leonhart’s private studio clients range from karaoke novices to touring artists, ages 9 to 81. She works with independent middle and high schools in New York, coaching jazz and contemporary band singers and private students, as well as college-level singers at the New School.

She has directed, written for, and performed as a soloist and ensemble member of vocal jazz ensembles, a cappella groups, gospel choirs, and Off-Broadway musicals. She is an accomplished vocal arranger and songwriter.

Leonhart is a Certified Somatic Voicework™ the Lovetri Method teacher, trained to teach in a curious, mindful, science-based manner. Her goal is to help singers find their voices and give them the tools needed to strengthen and free their instruments both physically and emotionally.

Leonhart leads performance and creative workshops and works with theater groups, choruses and small vocal groups. She works in collaboration with body workers and Speech Language Pathologists to serve her students holistically.

Leonhart is employed as both a commercial voiceover artist and vocalist (Trulia, Tresemmé, Kohl’s, Betty Crocker, Neutrogena brand, and more) and also works extensively as a touring and recording background and session singer (Steely Dan, Donald Fagen, St.Vincent, Judy Kuhn, Paul Brill.) She was a soloist in the Metro Mass Gospel Choir and has performed in leading roles at the 92nd street Y Lyrics and Lyricists series. Her debut record, the truth about suffering was released on Sunnyside Records. Leonhart is a 2015 commissioned NEW YORK VOICES artist of The Public Theater/Joe’s Pub, under which she created her one-woman musical narrative, Estuary: an artist | mother story. Leonhart’s sophomore recording, the illusion of blue, will be released fall 2021.

Associate Faculty

Associate faculty include:

Maria Damore
Mary Gresock
Oliver Henderson
Marty Lamain
Doug Peck
Ric Ryder
Bharati Soman
Rachel Williams

Past Guest Experts

Laurie Antonioli started singing professionally at the age of sixteen. In 1976 she attended Mt. Hood College in Portland, Oregon, the first school in the country to have a vocal jazz program. By the age of 22, she had performed with numerous luminary figures, including Mark Murphy, Joe Henderson, and Bobby McFerrin. Going on the road throughout Europe for a year, in 1981, with New Orleans jazz saxophonist and singer Pony Poindexter, secured her deep connection to the music. She also discovered her love of teaching and passing on what she'd learned on the bandstand. In her early teaching career, she was often invited to do workshops, including by Phil Mattson at Foothill College, a highly respected jazz educator. This inspired her to pursue not only performing but teaching as well since both things were of equal interest to her.

She made her first record in 1985 -- a duo recording with pianist George Cables, and since then, she's released six recordings to critical acclaim, including a record of Joni Mitchell's music -- one that, upon hearing, inspired Joni to reach out and invite Laurie to perform in her honor in San Francisco. Her recordings span a wide range of styles and approaches, from a Balkan Jazz record recorded in Slovenia with her "Foreign Affair" band to three recordings with her California band, covering Americana to original songs and reimagined folk/rock tunes. Finally, her recordings with piano icon Richie Beirach are intimate and very unique. Laurie started her professional academic career in 2002 at KUG University in Graz, Austria, where she was hired at the urging of Sheila Jordan, Jay Clayton, and Mark Murphy. From there, she went to the California Jazz Conservatory, where, as the head of the vocal program, she developed an extensive, inclusive, and comprehensive array of classes, workshops, and concerts for the school. From 2006 to 2023, Ms. Antonioli has been a leader in the world of jazz education -- hiring countless artists to teach and perform and continuing to refine and develop her own teaching practices. Today, Laurie applies many methods and approaches in working with developing singers. Her exposure to Somatic Voicework has been revelatory in terms of her own voice and in working with others. www.laurieantonioli.com

Randy Graff won the Tony and Drama Desk Award for her performance in “City of Angels.” Her other Broadway credits include: “Mr. Saturday Night,” opposite Billy Crystal, “Fiddler On The Roof”(2004 revival/Drama League Nomination) opposite Alfred Molina, “A Class Act” (Tony, Drama Desk Nominations), “Moon Over Buffalo” with Carol Burnett, Neil Simon’s “Laughter On The 23rd Floor” with Nathan Lane, “High Society,” “Falsettos,” and the original Fantine in“Les Misérables.” She won the Lucille Lortel Award for her work in Richard Greenberg’s “The Babylon Line” for LCT and was a Drama League Nominee for Paula Vogel’s ‘The Long Christmas Ride Home,” at the Vineyard Theatre. Randy has served on the musical theatre faculties at NYU Tisch and Manhattan School of Music. She currently has her own private studio in Manhattan where she teaches musical theater students “acting through song” and audition preparation. Ms. Graff holds an honorary doctorate in the Performing Arts from Wagner College.

Markus Hess, MD, is a dedicated otolaryngologist and phoniatrician, subspecializing in laryngology, phonosurgery, and professional voice use. Graduation in Düsseldorf Berlin. Since 1991 board-certified otolaryngologist, since 1995 board-certified phoniatrist. In 1998 he accepted a full professor position at the University Medical Center Hamburg-Eppendorf in Phoniatrics. He is co-founder and Head of the first Voice Clinic in Germany since 2014, the MEDICAL VOICE CENTER in Hamburg.

He specialized in the care of the performing voice and the treatment of voice disorders. Dr. Hess has long-standing experience in performing endoscopic and open surgical procedures on the larynx. He has invented many techniques for diagnostics and surgical interventions in laryngology and holds a patent on LED-stroboscopy. Dr. Hess brings a multidisciplinary approach to such patients as singers, actors and public speakers. His surgical patients receive cutting-edge minimally invasive techniques in laryngeal microsurgery as well as office-based voice surgery in topical anesthesia. Dr. Hess has authored and co-authored over hundred peer-reviewed articles. He is chair of Pan European Conferences (PEVOC) since 2015, a founding member of the ‘German Society of Phonosurgery’, founder and Executive Board member of the European Academy of Voice (EAV), Past-President of the international Collegium Medicorum Theatri (CoMeT) 2015-2018, Secretary General of International Association of Phonosurgery (IAP), co-founder and first president of the International Association of TransVoice Surgeons. He serves in multiple capacities on many international editorial and scientific boards and committees. Dr. Hess teaches regularly at national and international voice conferences and runs own courses in cutting-edge phonosurgery techniques.

Dr. Anita L. Kozan, Ph.D., CCC is a speech and language pathologist who has specialized in care of the speaking voice, singing voice, and voice production for people who are transgender or gender diverse for over 40 years. Her Ph.D. dissertation research, Perceptual Judgments of the Effects of Warming Up the Voice for Singing (University of Minnesota-Minneapolis, 1995) demonstrated that experienced teachers of singing correctly identified the warmed-up singing voice in 39 of 40 female trained and untrained singers in age ranges 20-29 and 50-69. Kozan opened Minnesota’s first Voice Laboratory offering Videostroboscopic evaluations of the Larynx at United Hospital in St. Paul, MN in 1987. She currently has a small private practice, the Kozan Clinic for Voice, Speech and Spirit, LLC in Minneapolis, MN. She sees clients on Skype and Zoom. Kozan is author of the chapter, The Singing Voice, in Voice and Communication Therapy for the Transgender and Gender Diverse Client: A Clinical Guide, Plural Publishing, 2006, 2012, and 2019, third edition with co-author, Sandi Hammond. Kozan received a Diversity Champions Award from the American Speech Language Hearing Association in 2009, the same year that she received a Lavender Magazine Pride Award for her work with the transgender and bisexual communities. She is co-host and co-producer of Bi Cities, “the longest running cable TV show on bisexuality in the history of the world,” which she co-hosts and co-produces with Dr. Marge Charmoli in St. Paul. Kozan has a CD of voice exercises, Relax and Breathe, for the development of speaking and singing voice, and breath support. She has lectured at the state, national and international levels, including ASHA, USPATH and WPATH. She has completed all three levels of Somatic Voicework™. Kozan is an accomplished singer and songwriter, plays keyboards and alto sax, and holds the U.S. copyright on 10 compositions.

Claudio F. Milstein is the Director of the Voice Center at the Cleveland Clinic, and the coordinator for the area of Voice and Voice Disorders at the American Speech and Hearing Association. He is an associate Professor of Surgery at the Cleveland Clinic Lerner College of Medicine, and holds an Affiliate Scholar appointment at Oberlin College. Originally from Buenos Aires, Argentina, he completed his Masters in Speech Language Pathology at the Medical School of the University of Buenos Aires, and was a professor at the National Conservatory for Dramatic Arts in Buenos Aires, specializing in voice for stage. After relocating to the USA, he received his doctorate in Speech Sciences from the University of Arizona, interned at the Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary at Harvard Medical School, and at the Speech Research Laboratory, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT).

His clinical interests are in laryngology and voice disorders. He has been actively involved in the clinical management of voice patients for over 20 years, has authored numerous publications related to the human voice and its disorders, and is frequently invited as a lecturer at national and international meetings. His expertise in voice, particularly in the treatment of Functional Dysphonias and Paradoxical Vocal Fold Motion and related disorders has garnered media interest, with radio, newspaper and television interviews across the United States and South America, including National Public Radio (NPR), ABC World News, Fox News and MSNBC. Through the media outlets, he has been able to reach, educate, and advise thousands of patients with voice disorders and healthcare providers across America. His current areas of interest include laryngeal hyper-reactivity, functional voice disorders, upper airway dysfunction, and care of the professional voice.

As an internationally recognized voice pedagogue in contemporary music, Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin has dedicated her career to performing and developing resources for teaching jazz, gospel/Christian, R&B, rock, country and pop singing styles in an applied/private voice lesson setting. She maintains faculty positions as a lecturer, voice teacher, and ensemble director at Princeton University, and newly formed in Fall 2021, Roc Nation School of Music, Sports, and Entertainment at Long Island University-Brooklyn Campus. In addition to her academic appointments, Dr. Trineice is a certified instructor and faculty member of the LoVetri Institute for Somatic Voicework™ at Baldwin Wallace; serves on the National Faculty in the academic division of Gospel Music Workshop of America, serves as the Executive Director of the African American Jazz Caucus Inc., serves as a Board of Director for the Jazz Education Network, serves on the Editorial Board of the Journal of Singing, and is a member of the distinguished American Academy of Teachers of Singing.

As creator of Soul Ingredients® Methodology, Robinson offers virtual and in-person Teacher Training courses in Soul Ingredients® Voice Teacher Training Academy and LoVetri Institute and in is the founder of Soul Ingredients® Voice Studio. Soul Ingredients® methodology shows students how to take their personal experiences, musical influences, and models, and execute the various components in a manner that is personal to the singer/performer’s own expression.

The title of Dr. Trineice’s 2021 debut album, All Or Nothing, billed under “Trineice Robinson” reflects the whole-hearted spirit with which she’s approached every facet of her wide-ranging career. It captures the passion, confidence, and dazzling scope of her rich, expressive voice, which DownBeat Magazine hails as “redolent with power… stunning.” But it also represents the dedication and commitment that she’s brought to an impressive career as a renowned educator, researcher, scholar, and clinician. She’s recorded with such jazz greats as Cyrus Chestnut, Nnenna Freelon, Kenny Davis, and Vince Ector, and was part of the “Standing in the Shadows of Motown” tour along with Peabo Bryson, Leela James, and James Jamerson Jr. New York Music Daily praised Robinson as “an individualist who defies categorization: there’s the immediacy of classic soul music here, coupled to jazz sophistication, gospel rapture and fervor.”

More information on Dr. Trineice Robinson-Martin and Soul Ingredients® methodology can be found at www.DrTrineice.com.

Bridget Rose has extensive experience as a speech-language pathologist within the field of voice and as a performer and singing teacher. After completing her graduate and undergraduate music degrees in Vocal Performance from the Indiana University School of Music, she continued to enhance her training through the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS) Teacher Internship Program and other performance training programs in the United States and Europe. She has had extensive experience as an instructor, including private and University positions, and has seen many of her students receive accolades in vocal competitions. Additionally, her former not-for-profit organization, Interactive Opera, Inc., allowed her to incorporate love of music in an interactive setting for students of all ages.

Ms. Rose later received her graduate degree in Communication Disorders from Emerson College in Boston, MA where she had a clinical student placement at Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary Voice Center. This allowed her to contribute more to the vocal aspect of her Clinical Fellowship at the Voice and Swallowing Center in Belfast, Maine. Ms. Rose is employed at Philadelphia Ear, Nose and Throat Associates (PENTA) where she is the senior speech-language pathologist working for Dr. Robert T. Sataloff. Since entering the field, she has been able to put experience into practice through various techniques for evaluation and treatment of vocal diagnoses from vocal fold paresis to PVFM, early voice therapy for young children using tele-practice, transgender group therapy and independent use of accent modification. In addition to patient treatment, she has presented at various voice centers and universities. She has participated in research projects as well as contributed to book and magazine publications including, Laryngology Clinical Reference Guide (2020), Voice Therapy chapter for “Professional Voice: The Science and Art of Clinical Care, 4th Edition.” and “Ask the Speech Pathologist.” Speaker Magazine, 2017.

Ms. Rose is a member of the American Speech-Language and Hearing Association (ASHA) and the ASHA Voice and Voice Disorders Special Interest Division (SID-3). She has been the volunteer coordinator for the international Voice Foundation’s Symposium since 2012. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Voice and still finds time to follow and cheer on her favorite collegiate basketball team, Indiana University.

Peter Sciscioli is a New York-based performer, creator, educator and producer whose work encompasses dance, music, theater and film. Since 1997 he has been creating performance works through a choreographic lens with a wide variety of collaborators for concert, theater and site-specific venues around the world. His approach to Voice as Movement, begun in 2009, has led him to engage in workshops and residencies at various universities, in Latin America and Eastern Europe, also serving as the resident voice teacher at the Trinity/La Mama Performing Arts Semester (2010-2016) and for the Wooster Group’s Summer Institute (2018-present). Peter has also had the honor of working closely with composer/interdisciplinary artist Meredith Monk since 2003 in various roles including assistant, performer, manager and producer, and is an original founding member of The M6: Meredith Monk Music Third Generation, an ensemble dedicated to helping preserve her extraordinary legacy.

As a performer, Peter has also worked with such luminaries as Ping Chong, Philip Glass, Susan Marshall, Mary Zimmerman, and as a member of Jane Comfort and Company (2004-2010), among others. In addition to appearing at BAM, the Barbican, Carnegie Hall, the Goodman and The Joyce, he can be heard on Meredith Monk’s Songs of Ascension on ECM Records and Tigger Benford’s Four Scores for Dance. In 2017 Peter co-initiated The Sounding Body series at Movement Research in New York where he continues to develop new collaborative initiatives. He has been honored to receive support from MR's Global Practice Sharing/GPS program to attend meetings and to help bring several artists from Eastern Europe and Palestine to participate in an annual residency and festival he founded in 2012, under the auspices of the International Interdisciplinary Artists Consortium (IIAC), a network of performing artists and producers working across disciplines and cultures. Currently Peter continues his work and research at home, virtually and abroad.