Described as cultivated, inclusive, and genuine, Jennifer Scott Miceli, PhD. is former Department Chair and Director of Music Education at LIU Post in Brookville, NY, where she continues to direct Long Island Sound Vocal Jazz and teach conducting. A choral pedagogue who is equally comfortable in jazz and classical performance settings, her dossier includes frequent local, domestic, and international conducting invitations including performances at numerous prestigious European jazz festivals, notable Central American jazz venues, as back up vocals for Barry Manilow at the Prudential Center, and at the world famous Iridium Jazz Club in Manhattan. In addition to her body of work in vocal jazz, Miceli is Music Director of Huntington Choral Society (HCS) – an organization for whom she has collaborated with Thaler Films and Martin Music Productions to executive produce film projects, commissioned choral works, featured well-reputed guest clinicians and performing artists, and expanded member benefits to include Continuing Teacher and Leadership Education (CTLE) hours. In summer 2022, HCS broadened its performance offerings to include a community vocal jazz program featuring both treble and mixed ensembles.
Recipient of the 2021 David Newton Award for Excellence in Teaching at LIU, Miceli is a specialist in Edwin E. Gordon’s Music Learning Theory and the Kodály approach. Articles appear in Choral Cues, The School Music News, General Music Today, Journal of Music Teacher Education, Audea – The Official Publication of the Gordon Institute for Music Learning, JazzEd Magazine. Book chapters include The School Choral Program (GIA, 2008) and Relazioni Intergenerazionali Nella Musica e Nell’arte (Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, 2020). Her book entitled Skill Building Sequence for Choral Ensembles: Volume 1-Teacher’s Guide for Children’s Choirs, introduces a pedagogical sequence for music literacy (UPA, 2015).
Miceli is Founding Director of Belle Voci Intergenerational Choral Society (501c3). A 2022 finalist for The American Prize in Choral Music – Community Division, this Long Island-based philanthropic treble ensemble comprises amateur and professional singers of all ages who sing to support cancer prevention and cure. In celebration of their 20th anniversary, Belle Voci extended their mission of cancer prevention and cure to the United Kingdom where they toured England and Wales in August 2023. A flutist and a singer, Miceli has performed in England, Wales, France, Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, Austria, and The Czech Republic.