Alan works with an advanced student who has had dystonia for a few years now.
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.
First things first, propper hand structure is a must
A slow exercise where we allow the thumb to support the injured hand/fingers
We are retraining the unjured hand and trying to activate certain muscles
Body, arm, wrist and the thumb
Left hand scales
The healthy hand needs to lead the injured one
One queistion about scales that everybody asks
