Alan talks about the real foundation for healthy piano technique.
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.
Alan talks about antigravity function, how to use it and get that springy, pure quality tone
Intimate contact with the keys, playing with the palm
Use the arch and nullify the uglu down forces and get the healty tone
Extreme Voicing opens up he sound of the piano, and the arch should be elastic
One fundamental error in how we understand human locomotion was that it's all done with muscle contraction
What allows us to produce tones that have musical value and no agression in them?
Flat palm for different tone quality
Wrap up lecture in anti gravity series
