Cellosection eines Schulorchesters

Habit – homemade…

I can't blame anyone else. And I wonder how many more of my hindering habits I've trained myself based on complete voluntariness. How do you teach yourself a…

Chamber Music with Amateurs and the Alexander Technique

An experiment - as nearly every professional musician has at least heard of the Alexander Technique it is totally different with the amateurs. So I heard repetitively sceptic…

Habits of the face – facial expression

One of my clients is at momentexploring the tensions we carry in our faces habitually. These are habits which are very closly connected to our feeling of identity.…

Your feet are flexible – allow them to move!

My valued customers know it: The importance of the subject “feet” has increased in my lessons. One could say that feet became the basement of my teaching. Today…

The Alexander technique & Rowing project Bremen 2014

What are the ingredients for an undreamt exciting and successful project?   1.)    Someone with ideas, energy and initiative: Alexandra Cornelius, mental trainer with a licence in rowing…

The most erogenous region of the cello

Anyway: Friction at the right spot is a blissful thing, isn´ t it? What does this have to do with sound production? Well – casually said: You´ re “pleasing yourself”…

Perfectly imperfect!

“Yet another cello-sophic blog article. Why am I not prociding more concrete, practical tipps? Is this blog always about the question of meaning? The huge pathos? Psycho-talk? Why…