July 6-10 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
AFF Institute - Victoria, BC - July 2015
Alan describes the idea of music skeleton
Lots of things going on in this lesson. Alan mainly talks about hand structure and function
Alan talks about several different technical concepts, joined thumbs, tension vs tonus..see Points of Interest for more details
Alan talks about the arch, arm weight, how to make sound alive
AFFI Victoria 2015
Alan works on student's arch.
Stand up on the thumb
AFFI 2015
Victoria 2015
Find out how Alan approaches broken chords
Respectig the laws of the skeleton
Alan demonstrates how to fix the arm weight (if you wanted to) in a few simple steps
Alan is helping a student play this etude faster by introducing rotation
How to gain even more speed when playing
The effects strengthening of the hand has on speed and movement
Alan talks about the three dimensions while creating music
Alan talks about bold melodic siging or
ATM, Victoria 2015
