placeNovi Sad, Serbia
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.
Let's face it, the thumb is not like the other four fingers on your hand
As well as understand musical structure and go constantly go through musical decisions
The music is flowing, so should your body
Respect the skeletal structure and function
Pianists are very good about curling their fingers but is that the movement we actually want?
Alan is taking ideas from Feldenkrais and applying it to piano technique
And by doing so, have the pianist feel better when they play
Finger action came before arm weight piano school
A quick review of the weighted piano technique from Alan
Standing, walking and running
The piano is playing you really
This feeling has to become a second nature when playing the piano
When the key goes down, the finger goes up
is a very important thing when you play the piano
