Change is vital.
I moved to Bremen and now specialize in historical performance practice. My main instrument is no longer - as it was when we met - the modern cello,…
What learning to play the cello and to run have in common
What learning to play the cello and to run have in commonBoth challenge me - my whole person - without ifs and buts. I learn a lot about…
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…
Tacet.
Something is different today than usual.
Something´ s in the air. Everything seems equally far and close, somehow the sound of the world is different.
Something is different - and…
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…