Marcelle Gauvin is a world renown vocal technician and educator.  She is sought out across the United States and internationally to give private and and master classes to vocalists and voice educators alike.  Marcelle is currently functioning as the head of the Jazz Voice studio at the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth.  She is also faculty at Shenandoah University’s Contemporary Commercial Music Institute.

            Marcelle Gauvin was born in Woonsocket, RI and began her performance career in the world of theater. Throughout her elementary and high school years, she was a regular in local plays and musicals, always looking for an opportunity to stand in the light.  In college, she maintained her presence in theater while also developing her sound as a rock and roll artist. 

            After Marcelle completed her bachelors, she continued her education through private instruction in New York, Boston, and Providence, with highly-regarded music, voice, acting, and dance instructors.  All this hard work came to fruition with the development of her highly sought after general business band, Sound Scope.  Despite their success over the following decade, Marcelle finally left the band to pursue her true passion: jazz. 

            "Jazz is a passion. I create because I have to and love to. Without that, my life force simply diminishes" (Gauvin).  With this determined attitude, Marcelle released her debut CD Faces of Love in 1999.  She began to play at jazz festivals and clubs regularly, building an enthusiastic audience of life-long admirers.  When 2002 arrived with the release of her second album, The Edge of the Pond, the nation was ready and waiting.  Intertwined with Marcelle’s unique sound was the playfulness of Bobby McFerrin, the sensitivity of Blossom Dearie, the Brazilian rhythms of Antonio Carlos Jobim, and the swinging scat of Ella Fitzgerald.  It was with the release of this second album that her place in the jazz world was secured.

            It was also because of this release that she began to attract the notice of the music department chairman at UMass Dartmouth.  Having developed her reputation as a skilled vocal coach, Marcelle began working at the university in 2002 as the primary Jazz Voice instructor.  Over time, her skill with multiple music styles made it possible for her to expand the studio to include pop, rock, country, R&B, and more.  Because of this ambitious educational development, Marcelle was introduced to now mentor and friend Jeannette LoVetri, creator of Somatic Voicework^SM The LoVetri Method, an internationally acclaimed teaching method for popular music styles. 

            Under this new framework, Marcelle’s educational career soared to new heights.  In under two years, Marcelle achieved her graduate level certification in Somatic Voicework^SM at Shenandoah University’s Institute for Contemporary Commercial Music.  After only one more year, she began to teach at the Institute.  In 2008, as part of her constant effort to keep UMass Dartmouth on the cutting edge of vocal development, Marcelle organized and hosted the first ever Level I, Somatic Voicework^SM in New England.  Due to its enthusiastic reception, the conference has been held annually at UMass Dartmouth’s main campus in Dartmouth, MA.  It features voice specialists, such as James Burns, M.D., partner of world acclaimed Steven Zeitels, M.D., as well as many grammy nominated vocal stylists. 

            Marcelle Gauvin is now considered an asset for contemporary commercial music vocalists and voice teachers around the world, and is responsible for coaching many young recording artists in the United States.  She is currently working on a new vocal project of her own to better reflect her continually developing vocal style.