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.
Some of you might already be familiar with the fuction of the thumb but it's good to recap.
Much of our movement is elastically generated, not just muscle contraction
And why is thumb opposition so important?
How to develop an elastic component of the hand?
When the thunb stands well, the fingers can move freely
Where does the thumb opposition start? Balcony position
