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Welcome to the jazz vocal studio at the Â鶹ӰԺ College of Music!​​
We are excited to launch this degree offering beginning fall ’24! The vocal jazz BM degree follows intensive development of all aspects of musicianship as a jazz vocalist with study in jazz improvisation, theory, arranging, repertoire and history as well as individual study and performing in our jazz ensembles.Ìý
Jocelyn Medina
The sounds and styles of vocalist/composer Jocelyn Medina cross cultures, creeds and continents. Her original music fuses elements of Brazil, Spain, Africa and India with jazz harmonies, neo-soul/funk grooves and adventurous improvisations.ÌýBorn into a family of singers, Medina determined her identity as a musician at age 5. She later pursued opera work at Stanford University, earned a bachelor’s in professional music from Berklee College of Music and a master’s in vocal jazz performance from the Manhattan School of Music.ÌýFurther musical explorations brought Medina to Ghana, West Africa, as well as Salvador, Brazil and—most recently—six months teaching, performing and studying in Mumbai, India, where she was exposed to more of the wide-ranging elements that continue to inspire her creative projects. Medina is certified in all levels of master vocal pedagogue Jeannette LoVetri’s Somatic Voicework™—a functional, body-based method of vocal training whose techniques have been adapted by a number of her previous and most influential teachers including vocal jazz virtuosos Theo Bleckmann and Luciana Souza. MORE