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Jane Soucek  is a voice and communications expert, and one of the foremost visionaries in voice science and commercial singing in academia.  She is a multi- genre Musician and Singing Voice Specialist, S.V.S., based in Chicago.  Her training in bio mechanics and laryngology melded with her extensive musical background has made her a highly sought after professor and clinician.

 

Jane got her start as a professor in Los Angeles, at the California College of Music.  After one semester of teaching, and seeing her students’ progress, the Dean approached her about a Chair position in the International Voice Program.  “I was still honing my voice science techniques then, but what I was doing was yielding incredible results.  I was primarily working with muscle isolations and teaching students to understand the anatomy.”  

 

From there she went on to oversee the commercial music power-house, DIME @ MSU. “DIME took me from professor to producer.  I wasn’t just teaching voice, I was putting bands together, coaching session styles, doing A & R, and building albums.” 

 

While in Denver, she began delving into more complex Voice Work. TM    "Voice work goes far beyond singing-- so much of our inner selves and emotion is tied up in the voice--it's therapy, really...at its finest."  Jane has helped clients with vocal fold paralysis, seizures, depression, fold nodules, TMJ, and PTSD, among others.

 

Now in Chicago, Jane splits her time between clinic work and coaching musicians while expanding her research on the Voice.