AFF Institute - Eitorf, Germany 2014

Eitorf, Germany, November 2014

Piano technique teaacher
Your teacher

Alan Fraser

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.

25 episodes 8:10:04 Basic Ongoing

This is an archived series

1
Whole Body Integrated with Hands Part 1 20:45

Alan is helping Ulli 'not ruining himself'!


2
Whole Body Integrated with Hands Part 2 15:01

Part 2 - integrating hands and the whole body


3
New Developments in Piano Technique Part 1 17:18

Alan's intro lecture for Eitorf 2014 Institute.


4
Whole Body Integrated with Hands Part 3 17:50

Part 3


5
Lie on Side - Slide Arm ATM Part 1 46:35

ATM, day 1 of Eitorf Workshop


6
Chopin - Military Polonaise Op.40 No.1 Part 1 15:51

Alan is helping Michael use his body in piano playing, not just his hands.


7
Chopin - Military Polonaise Op.40 No.1 Part 2 17:40

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'!


8
Chopin - Polonaise in A flat Major Op.53 - Heroic 25:12

Alan is coaching Matias in his early stage of learning the piece. They are going through the score, talk about rhythm..


9
Chopin - Polonaise in A flat Major Op.53 Part 2 21:18

Alan is into the nitty gritty of the polonaise. Great stuff if you are just learning this piece


10
Chopin - Military Polonaise Op.40 No.1 Part 3 13:00

The difference between muscle tonus and muscle tension?


11
Chopin - Military Polonaise Op.40 No.1 Part 4 12:11

Alan is talking about first dorsal interosseous muscle


12
Khachaturian - Toccata Part 1 19:34

Alan is helping a student play this piece with more energy and color


13
Khachaturian - Toccata Part 2 26:36

Part 2


14
Lecture on the Thumb - Eitorf 2014 19:03

Intro lecture from Eitorf, Germany 2014 Institute


15
Chopin - D flat Nocturne Op 27 No 2 Part 1 15:54

The first upload this year


16
Chopin - D flat Nocturne Op 27 No 2 Part 2 16:40

Alan is talking about artistic expressive logic


17
Khachaturian - Toccata Part 3 22:16

Alan is helping a student maintain her arch


18
Bach - C Major Fugue WTK 1 Part 1 16:13

C major fugue


19
Mozart - Sonata KV 330 1st mvt Part 1 16:56

On collapaed arch and stage fright via Mozart sonata


20
Chopin - D flat Nocturne Op 27 No 2 Part 3 19:25

Even though this lesson is on Nocturno, Alan really talks about hand structure, grasping, octaves..


21
Bach - C Major Fugue WTK 1 Part 2 15:09

Alan is trying to figure out where and how exactly is students hand falling down


22
Haydn - Sonata in D major Part 1 16:04

Haydn and The Craft of Piano


23
Bach - C Major Fugue WTK 1 Part 3 23:46

Part 3 wraps up this mini series on Bach's C major fugue.


24
Bach - Ich ruf zu dir Chroral Prelude Part 1 15:54

Alan is demonstrating the importance of a good arch


25
Bach - Ich ruf zu dir Chroral Prelude Part 2 23:53

Why we have troubles learning music and other questions answered in this part 2