The Voice Specialist Rosemary Ostrowski

Rosemary has been a professional singer for over 20 years. Her operatic career grew out of an intense passion and commitment to unite the music and theatre art forms. She began studying piano at age 4 (thinking she would be a concert pianist one day), but the allure of the voice took control, and singing became her passion. Before opera, there was songwriting with the guitar and piano and frequenting clubs and small venues with other musicians. But the interest in theatre peaked upon entering graduate school, and it was the first performance in a Mozart opera that transformed her. She went on to persue a Masters in Vocal Performance along with Doctoral studies in Vocal Pedagogy. She was accepted into the highly acclaimed Academy of Vocal Arts the same year she was a finalist in the National Metropolitan Opera Auditions. For the next 15 years she performed opera in the US and abroad. However, there remained many unanswered questions about the enigmatic voice and its workings.

After performing for over a decade, she was offered a teaching position at a University where she taught private voice, vocal pedagogy, and directed Opera Theatre. Simultaneously, she began her graduate studies in speech pathology (specializing in the singing voice and voice disorders). She finished her Master's in Science in three short years. All of the mysteries of vocal biomechanics were beginning to unravel.

She now dedicates most of her time tending to singers and speakers (professional and non-professional). Rosemary has worked at two of the most prestigious voice centers in the country, The Grabschied Voice Center in NYC, and The Institute of Voice and Ear Research in Philadelphia, collaborating closely with the doctors (otolaryngologists) who specialize in voice disorders. She is most recently helping to design and implement a new voice center in Philadelphia at Thomas Jefferson University Hospital. However, she maintains a private practice working with local singers and artists.

Rosemary continues to sing locally (in the US). She is also active in voice research, frequenting and participating in National and International Voice Conferences.

Science and Medicine are not perfect. They cannot answer every question, solve every problem. Art is mysterious, potent, and life-altering. But marry the two and you have an infinite resource for vocal transformation.

"There is nothing that is a more certain sign of insanity than to do the same thing over and over and expect the results to be different."

Albert Einstein