Private voice instruction grounded in Somatic Voicework™ (The LoVetri Method), in Chicago’s Ukrainian Village. For singers who want to sound like themselves.
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If you’ve ever walked out of a voice lesson feeling more restricted than when you walked in, lectured about “proper” technique, asked to round vowels in ways that erase your sound, told to “sing more classically” when classical isn’t what you want, this is a different experience.
Somatic Voicework™ (The LoVetri Method) is a science-based, body-aware approach to voice training developed by Jeannette LoVetri specifically for contemporary commercial music: pop, jazz, R&B, musical theater, gospel, rock. It teaches you how your voice actually functions, the muscles, the airflow, the registration, so you can develop real control, real range, and a real sound in the style you actually sing.
The premise is simple: there’s no single “correct” voice. Different styles ask the voice to do different things. Healthy technique is the technique that lets you make the sounds you want to make, repeatedly, without strain, whatever style you’re singing in. The method gives you a vocabulary for understanding what your voice is doing and a path for changing it when you want to.
For in-person students, recording is integral to voice lessons here. Listening back to your own voice is how voice work actually happens. You can’t hear yourself accurately while you’re singing. The studio has a real recording setup that captures reference takes throughout the lesson, and polished tracks for pieces you want to share. More on the studio →
Pop singers who want more range and stamina without losing the sound that makes them them. Jazz vocalists who want better control over registration and improvisational confidence. Musical theater performers preparing for auditions, who need to be able to belt cleanly, sing legit when called for, and switch between idioms. Total beginners who’ve always wanted to sing but didn’t know where to start. Experienced singers who’ve hit a wall and need to figure out what’s going on technically before they can break through it.
Lessons combine direct vocal work, listening to recordings of yourself, and a fair amount of technical conversation about what’s happening physically when you sing. The pace is yours, some students want to drill specific exercises, others want to spend most of the lesson working on songs and have technique woven in. Both work.
Recording is integral to voice study here. Hearing yourself outside the moment of singing is the fastest way to understand what your voice is actually doing, and the studio’s recording setup makes this part of every voice lesson. Reference takes for self-review while you’re working on something, polished tracks when something is ready to share. More about the studio →
“If one exercise or explanation doesn’t quite click, he’ll find another way in, often with a clever analogy or a subtle adjustment that suddenly makes everything fall into place.”
“Nicholas was my daughter’s voice teacher and my son’s piano teacher… He helped them both grow their understanding of music theory and their skills…”
It's a contemporary voice method developed by Jeannette LoVetri specifically for non-classical singing, pop, R&B, jazz, musical theater. The core idea: train the voice the way it actually functions for the music you actually sing, instead of imposing classical technique that doesn't fit.
Yes. Beginners and re-starters are welcome. The first lesson is partly diagnostic. We figure out what's already there and what needs building. You don't need to read music or have any prior training to start.
Most adult voice students start there. The first 10 minutes are talking, not singing. By the end of the first lesson you'll have made sound, but the studio is private and the bar is low. There's no audition, no grade, no audience.
Yes. That's where Somatic Voicework excels. Range and dynamic control come from technique, not from pushing harder. Most students notice meaningful change in 4–6 lessons of consistent practice.
In person at the studio: real piano accompaniment in the room and the cleanest sound for tone work. Zoom covers the weeks you're traveling or under the weather. Same rate, same teacher.
Voice work with kids requires a different framework than what's taught here, most voice teachers wait until late teens for that reason. The studio teaches teens (typically 14+) and adults.