Introduction to Piano Somatics: A 6-month Study Group | Session 1

Alan Fraser

Alan Fraser Bonn 2013

The Relationship of Gesture to Sound: Healing the Inner Pianist by Aligning Musical Body and Musical Soul

It’s a truism of musical performance that everything you do, sounds. Every aspect of your movement at your instrument has a profound effect on the musical result. We mostly rely on our early training and intuition to arrive at convincing pianistic artistry, but what if we could return our physical self to the spotlight, examine it under the microscope and hone it to yield greater musical riches. It’s a difficult but eminently rewarding path of growth.


This first seminar will examine some fundamental assumptions about the hand’s interaction with the key in the light of an intriguing metaphor: the hand as a mini-body that has legs/fingers, a pelvis/hand and a torso/forearm. When a Feldenkrais view of skeletal mechanics is brought to this mini-body, the hand acquires a new freedom and incisiveness in its relation to the key and ultimately to the music.


Seminar Structure:

  • 75-minute Awareness Through Piano Movement (ATPM) lesson (a Feldenkrais lesson done at the piano, not on the floor): Floating the Arm, Collapsing the Finger to Grow it Again, Connecting Whole Body to Key
  • Two 40-minute individual lessons on repertoire, applying the seminar themes in performance.
  • 25-minute discussion and close: question & answer round table

Monthly dates 2021

  • June 20
  • July 18
  • August 15
  • September 19
  • October 17
  • November 21
  • December 19
Details

Dieser Kurs besteht aus mehreren Einheiten.


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Alle Sessions: 100,00 € Einzelne Sessions: 20,00 €

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