Meet Jeannette Smith

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 Hi! I'm Jeannette. I have been singing, teaching music and performing in many different genres and capacities for almost 40 years.  My musical history includes: vocally and musically directing, playing piano for and performing in musical theater and opretta productions throughout the Bay Area;  performing as a keyboardist and singer/songwriter with a 1980’s all-originals rock band (in the 1980's!); singing with opera choruses for companies such as Livermore Valley Opera, Rogue Valley Opera Bear Valley Music Festival and Opera San Jose; teaching chorus and music theory at the middle and high school levels (Nueva, The Athenian School and Crystal Springs Uplands School); acting as Choral Director and resident voice teacher with the San Francisco Girls Chorus and teaching private voice lessons since 1988. 

My hobby is playing bass guitar and I am currently the bass guitarist/back-up vocalist for a brand new, all-female 60's/70's/80's rock cover band called GRRLZ TALK. Check us out at www.grrlztalk.com, Facebook, Instagram and on our grrlztalk you tube channel! I also have a dog named Lucy and I love playing ball with her and taking her for loing walks.

EDUCATION & CREDITS: I am a graduate of the San Francisco Conservatory of Music (Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance); I trained with such teachers as James Toland (of JTVA), Justin Stoney of "Voice Lessons To The World" (completed the "New York Vocal Coaching Voice Teacher Training & Certification Course" in 2020 and am a NYVC Certified Voice Teacher; completed studies in "Alexander Technique for the Voice" with Peter Jacobson and received his certification in "Total Vocal Freedom: Alexander Technique for Voice Teachers" in 2018. As it is extremely important to me to keep the practice in my studio as up to date as possible with the most recent research in vocal production and pedagogy, I am currently in training with Maddie Tarbox  (check her out on social media!) with an expected certification date of May 2026. 

I am also a member of the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS), a member of the American College of Musicians and on the honor roll of the National Guild of Piano Teachers.