Sample Lessons
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
Alan is throwing a lot of super useful info at the student.
From a small workshop in Amherst, MA 2016.
via Liszt's Mephisto Waltz No. 3, Alan talks about long term structures in music and planning
Arm should do most of the work, fingers are only keeping the keys down
Liszt-WIlde Jagt-Transcendental Etude
Inner hand action and the thumb differentiation