Ottawa 2015
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 talks about the sound and scouping, fulcrum like movement that induces elasticity in the hand. Via Chopin's Black Key etude
Alan gives useful pointers ofor left hand in Chopin's black keys etude
Alan talks about remedial effects rotation has on piano technique as well as rotation in scales
Alan talks about scales and leaps and gives examples from the literature
The sound picture for the entire etude
We go back to basics and brake down the technique that allows us to play runs and passages
How to stand and why is it important?
Standing, double escapement..
Alan talks about flat fingers, unified flection and agogics
Melt your hand into the piano and get alive sound
Structured hand is not a stiff hand if it's elastically created
You don't learn to walk by walking
Alan and Marc work on the concert etude [entire lesson]
Alan talks about the importance of good connection and how to make it happen
Alan is talking about Alberti bass and hand structure
