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Ereni Sevasti Rosenthal
Adjunct Professor, Cali School of Music, Dean's Office, College of the Arts
- Office:
- Chapin Hall
- Email:
- hrousisi@montclair.edu
- Phone:
- 973-655-7212
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Ereni Sevasti is a singer, actor, musician, and singing teacher whose performance highlights include The Visitor with Mandy Patinkin (Public Theater); The Bacchae (Shakespeare in the Park); and Lili in Carnival! (Kennedy Center). She performed as Joan Baez in Search: Paul Clayton at Martha's Vineyard Playhouse, and in a staged reading of Zorba the Greek with Antonio Banderas and Chita Rivera. For over six years, she regularly performed in Jacques Brel Returns at The Triad Theater, now Stage 72, in NYC. Ereni still sings regularly with Sondheim Unplugged at 54 Below and sold out tribute shows with the Losers Lounge at Joe’s Pub, My Father’s Place and White Eagle Hall. In her solo show, Ereni Sevasti Sings Joni Mitchell: Stepping Out of Blue, she celebrated the life and times of the great singer-songwriter while accompanying herself on guitar, dulcimer, and piano which she performed in NY and NJ.
Ereni holds a Bachelor of Music in vocal performance from Mason Gross School of the Arts at Rutgers University and a Master in Music in vocal performance from Montclair State University. She has provided pedagogical demonstrations for Richard Lissemore’s presentations for NATS, the Voice Foundation, the Singing Voice Science Workshop and his PhD dissertation in Speech and Language Hearing. Ereni serves as Associate Director of Operations for The Singing Voice Science Workshop. Ereni joined the Montclair State University music theater voice teaching faculty in 2017. She teaches applied music voice lessons, Performance Practicum, and Acting for the Singer I and II. She is currently pursuing her Doctorate of Education in College Teaching in Music and Music Education at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Teaching Philosophy
As an instructor of singing, my pedagogical philosophy focuses on developing a flexible vocal technique encompassing a wide variety of styles along with the students’ musical and dramatic imagination to create a performative event. This allows them to be fully present, expressing themselves with a functioning and supportive instrument capable of emotional depth. Through this process, students engage their critical thinking skills, issues of motivation and focus, and emerge as artists capable to enter the world with a stronger understanding of their entire flexible speech and singing range, and their unique place in this world.
http://www.erenisevasti.com
Specialization
Ereni Sevasti specializes in musical theater performance and vocal production encompassing the many styles necessary in today's music theater.
Office Hours
Fall
- Tuesday
- 10:00 am - 12:00 pm
Spring
- Wednesday
- 10:00 am - 11:00 am
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Research Projects
Singing Through the Struggle: A Musical Reflection on Doctoral Life, Mentorship, and Belonging
Doctoral education often entails navigating multiple, sometimes conflicting, roles, identities, and responsibilities. For students from artistic and caregiving backgrounds, the tensions between personal identity and institutional expectations can intensify feelings of isolation, invisibility, and precarity. Arts-based approaches offer ways to explore and represent these experiences beyond conventional academic prose. This article introduces an arts-based inquiry that uses original song and accompanying artistic statements to examine voice as both metaphor and method for navigating the complexities of doctoral life. By framing artistic identity and caregiving as sources of cultural wealth rather than deficiency, this work challenges deficit narratives and expands the possibilities for scholarly expression. This multimodal contribution highlights how dissonance, harmony, and modulation can illuminate the complexities of belonging and becoming within the doctoral and mentorship experience. In particular, rethinking voice as part of a collective ensemble rather than as a soloist affirms the emergence of scholarly identity as a relational and communal process that values mentorship, artistic practice, and caregiving as interweaving lines of a composition. In this way, this work demonstrates how arts-based inquiry can help reimagine doctoral life, offering new possibilities for realizing voice, identity, and belonging in academic spaces.