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.
You can or can't learn the notes but what will help you tremendously is putting the musical thoug...
Alan talks about the hypothenar muscles and how can we use them (better)
Use the arm, the arm will help you
Franz Liszt technical exercises - 8 dynamic levels
Release the pelvis for the muscles to sense
The piano hears and responds
What does it mean to play from the stomach but also how to deal with hypermobility
When playing the piano, orchestration and voicing is your bread and butter
We want to establish a new pattern and internalise it
The hands are the first point of contact with the piano, hence we must make sure they are solid
Brain needs a good mental picture of our body in order to function well
We don't want compression, we want extension type of a move
It's something we have to think about, incorporate it and it eventually becomes a second nature
One queistion about scales that everybody asks
