Alexander Technique for Musicians Workshop

Name: Alexander Technique for Musicians Workshop
Start: 2024-11-03T14:00:00-05:00
End: 2024-11-03T16:00:00-05:00
Location: Northland Music Center

Schedule

Sun Nov 03 2024 at 02:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Northland Music Center | Rhinelander, WI

Alexander Technique for musicians can be used to deal with tension, performance anxiety, pain and can help change harmful habits. Some of the main Alexander Technique principles include becoming mindful of the way we go about our daily activities and the unity of mind and body, each constantly influencing the other.
Cost: $30/person
Wear comfortable and flexible clothing
Register at: https://docs.google.com/forms/d/1h_y5gwqmtlbw0cbS7P5f-ubc5WXlJ97VCl7VCh5JkrU/edit
The technique has a long history of helping instrumentalists and singers to perform with less stress and likelihood of injury. Musicians do some of the most complex and demanding physical movements of any profession. In recent years, the term Repetitive Strain Injury (RSI) has come into popular use, but musicians have always had to face the challenge of performing the same complex muscular actions over and over again.
By helping musicians improve the quality of the physical movements involved in playing an instrument or singing, the Alexander Technique also helps improve the quality of the music itself. A violinist’s stiff shoulders and arms will get in the way of a pleasing sound; a singer’s tight neck or jaw will cause the voice to become less resonant. By helping musicians release undue tension in their bodies, the Alexander Technique makes possible a performance which is more fluid and lively, less tense and rigid.
Over the years, a number of prominent musicians have publicly endorsed the Alexander Technique: Yehudi Menuhin, Paul McCartney, Sting, Julian Bream, James Galwayand the conductor Sir Adrian Boult, to name but a few. The Technique is taught at the Juilliard School of Performing Arts in New York, The Royal College of Music in London, The Boston Conservatory of Music, The Royal Conservatory of Music in Toronto and at many other schools of music, universities and colleges.