How do we get a big and warm sound? By taking out all the "down".
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.
Working with the keys, not against them and making the strings vibrate the right way
No weight of the arm interfering with "dancing" with the notes
By going up instead of down
Perceiving more "up" than "down"
We are also talking about rotation, arm weight, directions of movement and more
And the hand organisation that allows it
