We are exploring his genius and unraveling mysteries of his compositions.
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.
We are exploring that touch and that feeling of 'tunneling the keys' in order to get the sound we want
We are actually braking the hand structure and figuring out what is needed here
Snake like rope hand structure because the intervals are too wide
"If you transform the left had, you are gonna transform the piece"
