Salt Lake City 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 sharing new discoveries
Overholding, springy wrist and elasticity
Hand's structure and function and how does that relate to the sound
Application of Newton's third law on hand's structure
Alex just had his first lesson with Alan. He learns how to use his hands efficiently
Alan talks about curved finger curles, Glenn Gould and Horowitz and other various techniques
Alan talks about Suzuki method, cat scratch motion, curly fingers and repeated notes
The importance of movable structure when playing the piano
Completely unstable but balanced hand
Translate vertical movement to horizontal phrase shaping
Thumb's role and function in a healthy structure
Alan talks about how student's hands transform and look better when being functional
In a moving way..the propper way to touch the piano
Alan helps a student iron out his scales
