Joan Jacobowsky

Joan Jacobowsky’s students include such outstanding professionals as Meribeth Bunch, author of Dynamics of the Singing Voice; Lynn Cole Adcock and Patti Hay Peterson, both professors of voice at major universities; and countless music educators at schools and colleges across the country. Salem’s music students benefit from Ms. Jacobowsky’s introducing the Alexander Technique at Salem, a method teaching the body to relax during performances and times of stress.

Active in the National Association of Teachers of Singing, Joan Jacobowsky has been soloist and vocal clinician in a number of churches in the state. An experienced director of musical theater, she has recently given programs of the songs of Gershwin, Carmichael, Ellington, and Sondheim. Ms. Jacobowsky earned degrees at the Juilliard School of Music and Columbia University. She studied with Edith Piper, William Vennard, Pierre Bernac, Oren Brown, and John Wustman. Ever the student, to increase her knowledge of vocal production, she devoted a sabbatical to the study of gross anatomy at a medical college.

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