Judy has been teaching vocal technique and improvisation to singers since 1980. She is a dedicated and involved teacher, who has led the Jazz/Pop vocal department at Berlin’s Music Conservatory “Hanns Eisler Hochshule für Musik” since 1995, and now leads the vocal jazz departments in two Conservatories in Europe: the Jazz Institut Berlin, in Germany and Musikene in San Sebastian, Spain. She also gives frequent workshops and master classes in Vocal Improvisation, Vocal Groups and Interpretation.

Judy began teaching privately soon after moving to New York City in 1977, and soon began filling in for Sheila Jordan at City College of New York. In 1985 she was invited to join the faculty of Long Island University in Brooklyn under the leadership of saxophonist Pete Yellin. She subsequently taught for several years at the New School for Jazz.

  She has been a faculty member for 19 years of Janice Borla’s Summer Vocal Jazz Camp (Naperville, Illinois), and has taught at Stanford University Jazz Workshop with Madeline Eastman, at Cathy Segal-Garcia’s Vocal Jazz Workshops, at William Patterson University (N.J.), and Purchase University (New York).

 Workshops in Europe include:

 FINLAND: SIBELIUS Academy of Music
POLAND: Vocal Jazz Camp with Deborah Brown
BELGIUM: DWORP Summer Jazz Workshop

 GERMANY:

      -BERLIN Masterclass Hochschule Der Kunste Koenigs Wusterhausen Vocal Jazz Masterclass, “Singing Styles in Jazz and Blues” Verband für popularmusikorientierte Gesangspedagogik e.V. Landesmusik Akedemie,
      -MUNICH International Musical School Festival, PrinzregentenTheater,
      -INZIGHOFEN Vocal Jazz Workshop,
      -HEEK Landes Musik Akademie NRW, Berklee in Europe 2000, 2002, 2004, “Summer Jazz” with Jeanfrançois Prins, 2002,
      -KUERNBACH Big Band Workshop w/ Peter Herbolzheimer,
      -RHEINSBERG Landes Jugend Jazz Orchestra Brandenburg,
      -LOERRACCH “Stimmen” Festival,
      -MINDEN, Judy Niemack Vocal Workshop with guest Darmon Meader.
      -1996-2006: Twice a year Bundes Jazz Orchestra Vocal Group under the direction of Peter Herbolzheimer.

HOLLAND: Masterclasses in Conservatorie of DEN HAAG, ROTTERDAM, HILVERSUM and ARNHEM.

DENMARK:

-COPENHAGEN Rhythmic Conservatory, 2000, 2006,
     -AARHUS Jazz Program

ITALY: PISA Jazz Vocal Workshop

SPAIN:

      -ESMUC Music Conservatory-BARCELONA,
      -Music School BLANESS
      -Il Seminario Internacional de Jazz de ZARAUTZ.

AUSTRIA: Klagenfurt Hochschule für Musik

Conservatory positions:

 September 1993 - June 1995: Royal Conservatory of Antwerp, Belgium

 Sept. 1993- June 1995: Royal Conservatory of The Hague, Holland.

 September 1994 - June 1996: Belgium’s first Professor Vocal Jazz, Royal Conservatory of Brussels, Belgium.

Oct. 1995-2005: First Vocal Jazz Professor in Germany, Leader Vocal Department, Jazz-Pop Dept. Hanns Eisler Music Conservatory, Berlin.

July 2005-present: Professor of Vocal Jazz, Leader Vocal Department, Jazz Institut Berlin.

Sept. 2003-present: Musikene Music Conservatory, San Sebastian, Spain.

Judy Niemack's LEARNING/TEACHING MATERIALS

“JAZZ SINGER’s PRACTICE SESSION” CD
– Learn to Sing and Improvise on 13 Popular Standards!
(featuring Fred HERSCH, Scott COLLEY, Dick WELLER) GAM 919
“HEAR IT and SING IT!” Book & CD
– Exploring Modal Jazz
(featuring Bruce BARTH, Dennis IRWIN, Kenny WASHINGTON)
SECOND FLOOR MUSIC – Distr. HAL LEONARD