Recitals & Workshops

In 2011 The Alan Fraser Summer Piano Institute was inaugurated at Smith College in Northampton Massachusetts. The 1-week Institute was limited to ten active participants who each received a daily piano lesson from Professor Fraser as well as attending lectures on aspects of piano technique and the morning Feldenkrais group Awareness Through Movement lessons.

The 2012 Institutes have expanded to two sessions each at Smith College and Salt Lake City, Utah. This special, learning-intensive regime promises a transformation in your piano technique unlike anything available elsewhere.

Below find a complete list of Alan Fraser’s international teaching & recital schedule. Unless otherwise indicated, direct all enquiries for lesson registration to Milosh Yankovitch.

Alan Fraser Upcoming Events 2012 – 2013

March 21 Teaching in Toronto, Ontario – cancelled
March 23-27 Teaching in Montreal, Quebec – cancelled
March 30-31 Workshops in Annapolis Royal, Nova Scotia
April 1 Recital, King’s Theatre, Annapolis Royal
April 7 Recital, St. Paul’s Anglican Church, Charlottetown
April 19-20 Workshop, Hamm, Germany
May 10 Recital, Bonn, Germany
May 11-13 Workshop, Bonn, Germany
May 14-18 Bavarian Music Academy, Marktoberdorf, Germany
May 19-20 Workshop, Gementelijke Muziekschool Bloemendaal, Haarlem, Netherlands
June 10-16 Piano Institute Session I, Smith College, Northampton MA
June 17-24 Piano Institute Session II, Smith College, Northampton MA
June 25-26 Private Lessons, Northampton, MA
 June 27 Private Lessons, NYC
June 29 – July 4 Private Lessons  in Montreal, Quebec
July 16-21 Piano Institute Session III, Salt Lake City UT
July 23-28 Piano Institute Session IV, Salt Lake City UT
September 2-5 Private Lessons, NYC
September 13 Recital, Pensacola, Florida
September 14-16 Workshops, Pensacola, Florida
September 25-29 Private Lessons, Montreal,  Quebec
March 15-17 2013 Workshop, Staedtische Jugendmusikschule Balingen, Germany

 

Alan Fraser Past Events 2011-12

2011
May 16-20       Bavarian Music Academy, Marktoberdorf, Germany.
June 3-4           New York City, The Chelsea Piano/Feldenkrais Studios, West 26th Street
June 7-10         Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota, Katherine Faricy Studio
June 12-15       New York City, The Chelsea Piano/Feldenkrais Studios, West 26th Street
June 16-18       Northampton, Massachusetts, Christine Olson Studio
June 19-25      The Alan Fraser Summer Piano Institute at Smith College, Northampton
June 27-29        New York City, The Chelsea Piano/Feldenkrais Studios, West 26th Street
July 1-5              McGill University, Montreal, Canada
July 6                  Quebec City, Canada
July 17-23        Acadia University Summer Music Camps, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada. (Cancelled)
Aug 31-Sept 4 New York City, The Chelsea Piano/Feldenkrais Studios, West 26th Street
November 17-18    Master Class at the ArtEZ Conservatory in Zwolle, Netherlands.
November 19         Presentation at the EPTA Netherlands Annual Meeting, Nunspeet, Netherlands

2012

January 16             Recital at Matica Srpska in Novi Sad, Serbia – 7 p.m.
January 19             Recital at Freies Muzik Zentrum, Stuttgart, Germany
January 18-22 The Alan Fraser Piano Institute @ Freies Muzik Zentrum, Stuttgart, Germany

Detailed Master Class Descriptions

Hirschberg (near Heidelberg), Germany

Alan Fraser teaches an annual master class at the intimate Jens Schlichting Studio. The group is congenial, the work stimulating and empowering – a combination of individual lessons observed by the whole group and daily Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement® lessons. Practice facilities are available, and meals are prepared by the Kay family girls – it’s a real family atmosphere that promises to repeat itself this year…  Date to be announced…
Registration Information

English Language Brochure 2011
English language Brochure 2010

German Language Brochure 2010

Bavarian Music Academy, Marktoberdorf, Germany.

…takes place in a castle in Marketoberdorf, where students come together for individual lessons, chamber music, piano four hands, Feldenkrais lessons, and jazz and flamenco dance as well! Participants live, eat and study in an ancient Bavarian castle only a half-hour drive from the famous castle of King Ludwig II. An opportunity for lessons with Alan Fraser in the setting of a true artistic colony. Location. Registration Information.

Alan Fraser New York Weekly Piano Sessions 2011

Take advantage of this opportunity to work with Alan Fraser in several sessions each separated by a ‘gestating period’ in which you can integrate the rich, new body of information experience you’ll receive. Sessions will be at the piano, on the Feldenkrais table, or combined, according to your individual needs.

Lesson slots in 2011 were available June 3-4, June 12-15, June 27-29, and Aug 31-Sept 4.
and will take place at the The Chelsea Piano/Feldenkrais Studios, West 26th Street. Contact Milosh Yankovitch for lessons in New York this year.

Lessons are “60 minutes plus” in length, fees as follows:
$140 for 1 session
$275 for 2 sessions
$400 for 3 sessions

Discounts available for students & seniors.

Please contact Milosh Yankovitch for more information or register here .

June 7-10    Minneapolis-St. Paul Private Sessions

Alan Fraser presented at the Minnesota Music Teachers’ Association Annual Convention June 6. He edstay on to do a few days’ private teaching at the home of Prof. Katherine Faricy. Please contact Milosh Yankovitch for more information.

June 19-25      Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, USA.

Smith College hosted this master class which featured Alan Fraser alone. Individual, handcrafted lessons will be augmented with Feldenkrais Awareness Through Movement lessons as well as lectures on specific aspects of technique taken from The Craft of Piano Playing and Honing the Pianistic Self-Image. An ideal opportunity to clear up questions you have about Alan Fraser’s writings, and to finally create that transformation in your piano technique you’ve been dreaming about for years. WebsiteRegistration Information.

June 30 – July 4     McGill University, Montreal

Fraser teaches at his old alma mater, now known as McGill’s Shulich School of Music over July 1st weekend. It’s a nice chance to combine work with the master and listening to some of the masters of Jazz – the International Jazz Festival hits town the same weekend.

July 5-6     Quebec City

And when he heads east to summer in the Maritimes he drops in at the Conservatoire de Musique du Quebec for a couple of days teaching en route.

July 17-23       Acadia University, Wolfville, Nova Scotia, Canada.

Alan Fraser gave a master class and recital at Acadia last winter, and was immediately invited back to teach in the summer camps. This camp session is totally devoted to Alan Fraser’s teaching and the ideas of Craft of Piano Method. Another great opportunity for close, intensive and effective pedagogical contact with Prof. Fraser. Registration Information.

September 10-12     Pensacola, Florida

An all-day public master class is planned at a local piano store for Saturday the 10th. Private sessions on the 11th. A presentation to the students of the Florida State University College of Music at Pensacola on Monday the 12th.