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.
Part 2 - Sitting ATM - Ottawa Institute 2014
ATM lesson, sitting and how to apply it when playing the piano
When thumb is trying to oppose itself to the hand, it drwas itself into right relationship with the hand
Alan is helping Jordan empowering her playing. A really good example of Alan's teaching.
Learn more about Biotensegrity, Anatomy and how all these things influence our playing. Remarks on Arm Weight school too...
Interesting performance, Alan is working on body posture and also find out why Alan likes to sit low at the piano
Great lesson on the Fantaise in C!
Intro lecture given to the participants of the Smith College Institute 2014
Last part of this mini series. Alan is working on the tone, legato
Alan is comparing hands to the bellows and explaining its elastical relationship with the piano
Wonderful performance but a lot of stage fright. Alan is addressing that issue in this part
We explore the hand structure even further and working on the tone.
"The sense of emotional connection is in the intensity of the touch"
Alan is talking about stable and unstable equilibrium in piano playing as well as many other things
