Forward & Up

Lecture / Workshop

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Forward & Up

'Paul has the ability to make the students aware from the first minute ... to create a dialogue with them. I strongly recommend his lectures/workshops to all music institutions!'
Nina Kastrup, Director of Music, Slagelse School Of Music, Denmark.

'Many congratulations on the absolutely brilliant master class you gave last week.' Dr Christopher Wynn Parry MBE MA FRCS FRCP. Consultant Rheumatologist and Honorary Physician to BAPAM.

This lecture is for all instrumentalists, singers and ensembles. The aim is to give the participants the tools to express themselves through realising their creative power by increasing their body awareness.

The Lecture includes :

	Psychological portrait of a Musician
	The use of the Alexander Technique
	Practice and Performance techniques, including exams/auditions
	How to conquer Anxiety in Performance
	Ensemble music practice/performance
	Improvisation
	Conscious development of "Peak Performance"
	Understanding how the nervous system works
	Breathing
	Understanding of Conscious Guidance
	Imitation

The music makes the movement and the movement makes the music.

In the workshop the students will learn how to use the different techniques and ideas from the lecture by actively performing and learning how to liberate the body from any unwanted tension.

Venues include:

2006	MA Performance, Health and Media Practice. LCMM/Thames Valley University. Tuesday 5 December.
2005	The Royal Society of Medicine, London UK. Bicentenary Programme. Tuesday 27 September.
2002	ISSTIP International Forum on "Health & The Performing Arts" at Trinity College of Music
2002	Performance in Business Workshop for People Transform Ltd at Harley Street 10 London
2001	City of London Freemen's School, Ashtead Park, Surrey, UK
2000	Slagelse School of Music, Denmark (As part of their Diploma Course for classical/jazz musicians)
1999	City of London Freemen's School, Ashtead Park, Surrey, UK