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Alexander Technique: How to be a Healthy Musician

Price range: $180.00 through $300.00

  • Karin Adcock
  • 6x90-min sessions
  • Mondays (8-9.30 PM SGT)

Description

Musicians often spend hours in one position practising the same thing over and over again – practice, after all, makes perfect, or so they say! They are often very ambitious and want to be the best. Quite often the combination of these factors leads to a state of exhaustion. 

Due to the pressure of meeting deadlines for concerts, musicians tend to ignore the initial signs of trouble: aches and pains. Playing “through pain” is even seen as a mark of achievement for some. In reality, if musicians ignore the early warning signs of a problem, eventually the pain can be severe, hampering effective – and enjoyable – music-making.

Alexander Technique, which is taught at major institutions the world over, helps to avoid repetitive strain injuries, and also helps to cope with performance anxiety. We will learn how to cope with undue physical and mental tension.

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Instructor

Karin Adcock has been teaching Alexander Technique for 16 years and piano over 20 years. After studying piano in Tallinn Music High School and Estonian Music Academy her life changed when she injured her arms and couldn’t play for several years. Alexander Technique helped her to recover from her injuries and she trained as an Alexander Technique Teacher in London from 2004 to 2007. For the last 16 years Karin has been dedicated to teaching young musicians how to prevent injuries and how to cope with performance anxiety. She taught Alexander Technique for 7 years at Tallinn Music High School, 3 years at Junior Department of Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London. Karin is currently living in UK, and teaches piano and Alexander Technique at Oundle School since 2016.

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FAQS

Each course has a planned start date, which may shift slightly depending on participant sign-ups. We will confirm the final schedule with all registered participants once enrollment is finalized.

Yes, they will be made available for participants until 6 months after the completion of each course.

E-certificates will be issued on course completion to Active Participants.

Active Participants will be involved in class participation: interacting with course instructors, receiving feedback on class assignments/submissions, and they will have playing opportunities in class etc. Observers will be observing these segments of the class.

Active Participants will receive an E-certificate of participation, and Observers will receive a certificate of attendance.

5 days before the course commences.

Yes, simply get your friends together and send us an email to request for a second round of the course! If we receive sufficient signups we will repeat the course.

We do not conduct make-up classes. Learners who miss a session can catch up on the class content by watching the session recording thereafter. If there are any class assignments, learners are to contact the instructor directly.

We at the Academy do our utmost to make courses proceed as planned. However, there are times when unforeseen circumstances force a class to be cancelled. When this happens, we are committed to refunding the total amount, in an efficient manner, including any costs of using third-party payment gateways.

Should a participant need to cancel, we will make efforts to accommodate refunds, though costs of using third-party payment gateways will be borne by the participant.

Late cancellations may not be able to be refunded, as they will have been factored into the confirmation of running the course. We will provide a full refund for cancellations up to 2 weeks before the start of a course, following this a 50% refund with up to 1 week of notice. Notifications of fewer than 7 days will most likely not be eligible for a refund. We thank you for your understanding.