The ALAN FRASER PIANO INSTITUTE comes to GENEVA

The first Alan Fraser Summer Piano Institute at Smith College, Northampton MA was established in June 2011. Response was so positive that Fraser was soon holding Institutes in several new locations on both sides of the Atlantic. This is the first Institute to be held in Switzerland.

The Alan Fraser Piano Institute in Geneva is OPEN TO ALL INTERESTED PIANISTS: performing professionals, university students, studio teachers and enthusiastic amateurs both young and old...

ACTIVE PARTICIPANTS receive a complete lesson with Alan Fraser each day plus a daily ATM lesson, a seminar lecture and observation of all individual piano lessons.
PASSIVE PARTICIPANTS (auditors) receive no individual lessons but take full part in all other activities.

ALAN FRASER: A MASTER TEACHER

With his background in Feldenkrais Method and his long-standing collaborations with pioneer pedagogue Phil Cohen and virtuoso Kemal Gekich, Alan Fraser is on the cutting edge of modern-day piano technique. Author of three major books on piano technique, The Craft of Piano Playing, Honing the Pianistic Self-Image and All Thumbs: Well-Coordinated Piano Technique, Fraser uses his profound knowledge of body mechanics to help you develop the hand power and coordination you need to make the piano to sound like an entire orchestra, giving you a much wider range of tonal colors, deeper musical expression and nimbler fingers as well. Fraser's teaching is especially effective because he not only knows a great deal about piano technique, but possesses exceptional skills as a communicator: he has spent literally decades developing effective ways of transmitting his continually developing knowledge to his students.

AN INTENSIVE SERIES OF DAILY LESSONS

The Institute is structured to give you the most intensive experience of Alan Fraser's teaching possible. Each day your lesson with the master is supplemented by a group Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement (ATM) lesson that helps you feel in your whole body the coordination you need in your hands, and a lecture on the topics most relevant to your personal technical concerns. You are also welcome to observe as many other lessons as you want - often students learn as much watching others grapple with the same problems as they do in their own lesson. The experience is communal - we all grow in our understanding together.

This is a rare opportunity for you to experience Fraser's teaching at close quarters, and to apply the potent ideas of Craft of Piano Method to your own playing. Professor Fraser teaches in both English and French.

TRANSFORM YOUR PIANO PLAYING "OVERNIGHT"

Discover new solutions to your favorite interpretive-expressive challenges, learn how to use Craft of Piano Method with your own students, and if you suffer from performance injury, let Fraser's exceptionally effective combination of pure hands-on Feldenkrais lessons and work at the piano improve your condition in a way that simply can’t be found elsewhere.

WATCH FULL LENGTH ALAN FRASER PIANO LESSONS ONLINE

To give you a clearer idea of the teaching that awaits you, we offer online videos of full length Alan Fraser piano lessons, where his ideas transform his students' sound, agility and musical understanding right before your eyes.

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