This workshop was originally planned for 8 Feburary 2020! Happily, it can now go ahead on Saturday 3 September at Brighton Unitarian Church in New Road, Brighton. I can now confirm that it will run 12-3pm, with a break for lunch. Here’s more details:
This will be a workshop combining advanced piano technique with Alexander Technique, featuring not only me but wonderful Alexander Technique teacher Mimmi Elvinsson - you can find out more about Mimmi and Alexander Technique here:
http://www.yourbodyandvoice.co.uk/
After a brief introduction from me and an introduction to Alexander Technique from Mimmi this will take the format of half hour individual sessions working on short passages of music and ways to approach them involving Alexander Technique with feedback from both Mimmi and me. We hope these will be interesting to observe as well as take part in! To be a full participant will cost something like £35. If you'd like to just observe this will be £15.
There's a long tradition of combining Alexander Technique with musicianship. I'm a great believer in this, and have developed a particular strategy for incorporating an Alexander Technique approach into practice, which I think other people may find helpful. For me it turns practice into something which is always concerned with making playing feel physically easier and more enjoyable at the same time as enhancing all aspects, technical and musical, of pianism. The idea is to find a way of simultaneously working on your playing, your posture and the way that you move, how you relate to your surroundings, and other dimensions Alexander Technique brings to the table. So I hope it will be of interest to lots of you!
Do please let me know if you'd like to take part or observe, and do also please forward this to anyone else you know who might be interested.