Alan is helping a student who broke her arm years ago but it hasn't healed properly
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.
A student broke her hand many years ago and it hasn't healed properly. Now the shoulders and the whole body are tensed up and compensate for the broken arm.
Exploring horizontal movement of the injured hand
Brain took a local problem and globalized it to the whole body
Hand is like a lung. When you inflate the hand, you can play and move.
The body is moving and floating freely and the sound is great
The series recap.
