Alan Fraser's Institute - Ottawa July 2014
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
Interesting performance, Alan is working on body posture and also find out why Alan likes to sit low at the piano
When thumb is trying to oppose itself to the hand, it drwas itself into right relationship with the hand
ATM lesson, sitting and how to apply it when playing the piano
Part 2 - Sitting ATM - Ottawa Institute 2014
Alan is talking about how to build strength in the first dorsal interosseous.
Alan is comparing harpsichord technique to the modern technique and talks about arm weight school as well.
Part 2
Part 3
Alan and Marc are discussing passages, octaves..
In this lecture, Alan is talking about the link between what we are doing physically and the artistic results.
What do we get when we are extremely well organized physically?
Part 2 - Carnival with Alan
Alan is talking about best practices when playing scales. Color, touch, palm
Q&A session with Alan on the last day of Ottawa Institute - 2014
