The Alexander Technique for Musicians

by Judith Kleinman, Peter Buckoke

Overview

The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to the Alexander Technique, or to supplement the reader's lessons, the book looks at daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher–pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and the application of the Alexander Technique to instrumental and vocal work.

Complete with diagrams and photographs to aid the learning process, as well as step-by-step procedures and diary entries written by participating students, The Alexander Technique for Musicians gives tried-and-tested advice, drawn from the authors' twenty-plus years of experience working with musicians, providing an essential handbook for musicians seeking the most from themselves and their art.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781408176832
Publisher:	Bloomsbury Publishing
Publication date:	11/21/2013
Sold by:	Barnes & Noble
Format:	eBook
Pages:	224
File size:	4 MB

About the Author

Judith Kleinman has taught the Alexander Technique at the Royal College of Music for 20 years and at the Junior Royal Academy of Music. She is the Assistant Head of Training at the London Centre of Alexander Teacher Training.

Peter Buckoke runs the Alexander department at the Royal College of Music where he has been Professor of Double Bass and Alexander Technique since 1989.


Peter Buckoke runs the Alexander department at the Royal College of Music where he has been Professor of Double Bass and Alexander Technique since 1989.


Judith Kleinman trained as a classical musician and teacher at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. She has a busy professional career as a double bass player. She was a member of the orchestra of the English National Opera and City of London Sinfonia and now freelances in London on modern and period instruments. She qualified as an Alexander teacher 20 years ago, having trained with Patrick MacDonald and Shoshana Kamanitz. For the last 10 years, she has been one of the Alexander teachers at the Royal College of Music and also teaches at the Royal Academy of Music's Junior Department. Judith is co-director of the London Centre for Alexander Technique, which trains new Alexander teachers. She also has a private practice and has collaborated with Systemic psychotherapists on research, combining Alexander work with therapy. She writes about the technique, particularly about teaching young people and has presented workshops to the general public and the Alexander world on her approach to the work. She has worked for the Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) on Council, coordinating the Arts and Education group. Judith is a qualified teacher of Tai-Chi and is interested in combining movement with Alexander work.
Peter Buckoke runs the Alexander Technique and is Professor of double bass at The Royal College of Music (London). He has created the five Alexander course available to the RCM students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He is known as a chamber musician playing double bass, as a founder member, with The Schubert Ensemble and other chamber groups by invitation. He writes for musical journals about 'bass playing and the Alexander Technique. His first book, The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a collaboration with his wife Judith Kleinman, it is published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. In his spare time Peter looks after several colonies of bees.

Table of Contents

College/higher education; professional and scholarly; theory of music&musicology; musical instruments&instrumental ensembles; techniques of music/music tutorials.