Lecture given during the AFF Smith 2016 Institute
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 new series on thumb in the light of the organic hand approach
An ongoing conversation on the rotation and thumb opposition
Alan talks about bending of the thumb
Arm thumb is an extention of the radius
An amazing lesson on thumb, must see!
Alan answers the question on the collapsed thumb
Question on the thumb neutrality
