The art of microtiming and we are not talking about rubato.
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.
Each pianist has a way of inflecting musical line
Pushing vs joining
Expression arises out of physical relationship with the piano
Overly expressive playing vs. this flux of up and down we have been talking about
Trifonov and microtiming
A totally new world of expression opens us!
