Alexander Technique, career, concerts, healing, orchestra, pain, suffering

Most musicians experience pain, but here’s hope!

When I was a kid, my dad took me to hear orchestra concerts and ...

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Alexander Technique, anxiety, Art of Freedom, auditions, awareness, beliefs, emotions, fear, performance anxiety, reactions, thinking

Transforming My Negative Thoughts on Taking an Audition

I worked on the cadenza of the Tschaikovsky concerto today. The hardest thing about ...

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Alexander Technique, practicing, Uncategorized

A Radical Shift in Preparing for Orchestral Auditions

Mr. Wooram Kwon, Violinist/Violist, CCM Student I had such a wonderful experience this week ...

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Alexander Technique, Art of Freedom, education, freedom, joy, life, life purpose, musicians, performance anxiety, practicing, suffering, teachers, Uncategorized

A Shocking Exchange on Facebook about Music and Hard Work

Michael Rabin, one of the greatest violinists of all time. Died at 35. I ...

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Alexander Technique, awareness, chamber music, education, improvement, instruments, musicians, performance anxiety, practicing, self-control, suffering, thinking

Why Can’t I Play Like That?!

Journey onwards! You’re better than you think. One of my students recently expressed his ...

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life, life purpose, Love, musicians, Uncategorized

Musicians and Runners ~ Sharing Moving Moments Together

The Peraza Music Workshop studentsat the start of the Flying Pig Half-Marathon 2014 A ...

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