Tutor and Alexander Technique mentor, Ann Hetherington, encourages us to consider A Kinesthetic Approach to Performing on Sunday 29 November. Ann helps musicians and singers to make discoveries on how to employ technique and communicate the music using a kinesthetic approach to reducing muscular and mental tension. The method will reference Alexander Technique, which Ann has taught for many years.
A thoroughly enjoyable and useful day. Ann proved to be a very good teacher, bright and communicating with us all the time. I could have taken more of it! I learned what the technique was about and the way in which it can improve our movement and our posture at the piano.
Michael
Ann Hetherington attended the Royal College of Music, as a singer and pianist. She took Alexander Technique lessons with Marjory Barlow (Alexander’s niece), and joined Marjory’s training course 3 years later and qualified as a teacher herself. She subsequently taught AT one to one for the next thirty years.
Ann teaches piano and cello, and has a special interest in introducing new skills in such a way as to prevent stress in the mind which can convert into muscular tension. Ann has given taster days on the Alexander Technique for county peripatetic music teachers and also at a music conference for the blind, and as a resident AT teacher on a music camp.
Ann clearly knows her subject well and I picked up lots of useful tips. Helen
Ann’s course is open to singers and musicians of all abilities and will take place at Jackdaws in Great Elm, just 3 miles from Frome. The course starts at 10.30am with complimentary tea and coffee, and a chance to meet your fellow participants. Tutor sessions take place from 11am to 3pm, with a break for a delicious home cooked lunch, included in the course fee of £45.
A Kinesthetic Approach to Performing
Ann Hetherington
Sunday 29 November 2015
Level: Singers & Musicians of Any Ability
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