June 2016
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
The intro lecture from this year's Smith College Institute. Also the title of Alan's next book.
We dig deeper into subjects like biotensegrity
Alan talks about the fulcrum/lever effect and what he calls arm skeleton
Alan answers a question on overpressing
Is it a good or bad practice?
