Liz Townsend
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Liz Townsend is a vocalist, voice instructor, arranger, and bandleader based in Kalamazoo, MI. She is the jazz voice professor at Kalamazoo College and is on voice faculty at Southwestern Michigan College. She served as the director of Gold Company II at Western Michigan University (WMU) for three years where she also recently served as the interim jazz voice professor. Liz recently released her debut album Along the Way which features original music along with her arrangements of beloved jazz standards.
Last year, she presented at the Michigan Music Conference and has been invited as a guest clinician to work with college and high school choirs across Michigan. Her arrangements have been featured on music reading sessions including at the Jazz Education Network Conference and the American Choral Directors Association National Conference.
Liz holds a masters degree in Jazz Voice Performance from WMU where she studied with Greg Jasperse. She also earned her bachelors degree from WMU in Choral Music Education during which time she studied classical voice with Dr. Rhea Olivaccé. She has additional training through Maddie Tarbox’s Vocal Function 101 and Estill Voice Training and has completed all three levels of Somatic Voicework™ – The LoVetri Method.