UPBEAT! 2016 – 2017
Created for musicians and Alexander teachers who work with musicians, this series encourages the rich interface between the art of making music and the art of teaching the Alexander Technique.
The Technique has so much to offer the performing arts, particularly musicians, and our profession has outstanding teachers who are also fine musicians and have explored the challenges of bringing the Technique into performing and singing on many levels.
This year we are privileged to host Judith Kleinman and Peter Buckoke, authors of the acclaimed book Alexander Technique for Musicians, as well as Beret Arcaya, singer and author of the recently published book Understanding the Singing Voice.
Workshops for this Event
Beret Arcaya
Breath, Phonation and how Alexander Discovered Self-Mastery
Saturday & Sunday, 25th and 26th March 2017
10.00 AM to 4.00 PM
This event is limited to 18 participants.
FEE: £75 for teachers per day / £45 for teacher trainees per day. Book here
Beret Arcaya is teaching privately on Friday 24th March only at Studio One.
To book a private lesson, click here.
Workshop Description
Breath is fully 50% of all success in speaking, singing and phonation in general (even if you are not a professional speaker, singer or actor). This course will clear up the myths and half-truths that abound in “Learning to Breathe”, “Yoga breathing” “How to Breathe” ” Breathing as an Art” and show you how to get out of your way and trust the reflexive nature of breathing. Pupils come to us who have been “taught” how to breathe, and often seem unable to understand how simple it is. This is because they are so habituated to making efforts to “do” this reflex. Breath will adjust automatically to fit the activity. This is true of all animals and true of us as well.
But then how can a person master the flute, oboe or trumpet? What about acting on stage, or singing? How do we master the breath and not infringe upon the reflexive nature of breathing as we master it? So what is mastery in this sense? Please join us as we explore these issues and feel free to bring recorders, along with your questions.
Beret Arcaya was born in New York. She was accepted into the Juilliard School of Music. As an actress she has appeared in professional summer theatres and on television in leading roles. When she became a singer, the method of Manuel Garcia (1804-1906) and the self-discovery and freedom she experienced in this process set her on the creative path to which she remains dedicated.
In January of 1975, Ms. Arcaya began studying the Alexander Technique privately until 1978, when she joined the ACAT-New York teacher training program under the auspices of Judith Liebowitz. She received her Teaching Certificate in 1981. From 1981 until 1987, she built a large teaching practice. She was a founding member of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) and the Spanish Society of Alexander teachers as well (APTAE ).
She has taught and performed classical vocal music in Switzerland, Germany, Spain, Austria, Italy and Venezuela. From 1992 until 1999 she gave an annual two-week intensive workshop in The Alexander Technique for musicians at the Salzburg Easter festival, under the auspices of the Kominsky Foundation. She taught Voice/Alexander in Madrid from 1988 to 2001. In 1996 she retrained with Walter and Dilys Carrington in London, and completed another 3 years of graduate training with them. She finished her studies at CTC in 2005. Ms. Arcaya is a member of the Spanish (APTAE), English (STAT) and American (AmSAT) Societies for the Alexander Technique. She continues to maintain a very active teaching practice.
Peter Buckoke & Judith Kleinman
The Alexander Principles for Musicians
Sunday 18th June 2017
10.00 AM – 4.00 PM
£75 for teachers per day.
£50 for teacher trainees and students per day. Book here
Workshop Description
Drawing from their book The Alexander Technique for Musicians (published by Bloomsbury, November 2013) , Judith and Peter will lead a workshop introducing their principal ideas: the many ways that teachers of the Alexander Technique can work effectively with musicians. They will be looking at breathing, balance and vision, and connecting them to practice, forming the basis of their work developed at the Royal College of Music and the Junior Academy.
Judith Kleinman and Peter Buckoke have been teaching the Alexander Technique at the Royal College of Music for twenty-five years. They are both professional double bass payers working in the London music scene. Judith is assistant head of training at the London Centre for Alexander Teacher Training. Their book, The Alexander Technique for Musicians, was published by Bloomsbury in November 2013. Available online at www.amazon.co.uk