Tag: Alexander Technique

  • Forward and Up: The Alexander Technique

    Catching up with the various social media feeds recently I noticed Pedro de Alcantara had posted with pride a photo of the new edition of his Indirect Procedures. I first encountered the book as a student when I discover the technique through lessons offered at my students’ union. To say the technique had a massive…

  • Day Five

    It is not even the end of the morning session and already some interesting technical issues have been raised on Kenneth van Barthold’s intensive piano workshop in Edinburgh. The physiognomy of piano technique was most apparent in discussions this morning when the playing of octaves which in turn led to talking about curved fingers versus…