Eitorf, Germany, November 2014
Born in Montreal in 1955 Alan Fraser studied piano but also delved into composition, cello, classical singing and had several stints as a pop musician. Alan’s main pianistic influence was the pioneering research of Phil Cohen who studied alongside Ronald Turini, Andre Laplante and Janina Fialkowska with Yvonne Hubert, who had been Cortot‘s assistant in Paris. Alan spent several years with Cohen after an apprenticeship with two former Cohen students, Alan Belkin and Lauretta Milkman.
This is an archived series
Alan is helping Ulli 'not ruining himself'!
Part 2 - integrating hands and the whole body
Alan's intro lecture for Eitorf 2014 Institute.
Part 3
ATM, day 1 of Eitorf Workshop
Alan is helping Michael use his body in piano playing, not just his hands.
Alan is demonstrating how to play the real staccato and proceeds to talk about the action of the hand. 'For every action, there is an opposite reaction'!
Alan is coaching Matias in his early stage of learning the piece. They are going through the score, talk about rhythm..
Alan is into the nitty gritty of the polonaise. Great stuff if you are just learning this piece
The difference between muscle tonus and muscle tension?
Alan is talking about first dorsal interosseous muscle
Alan is helping a student play this piece with more energy and color
Part 2
Intro lecture from Eitorf, Germany 2014 Institute
The first upload this year
Alan is talking about artistic expressive logic
Alan is helping a student maintain her arch
C major fugue
On collapaed arch and stage fright via Mozart sonata
Even though this lesson is on Nocturno, Alan really talks about hand structure, grasping, octaves..
Alan is trying to figure out where and how exactly is students hand falling down
Haydn and The Craft of Piano
Part 3 wraps up this mini series on Bach's C major fugue.
Alan is demonstrating the importance of a good arch
Why we have troubles learning music and other questions answered in this part 2