Andrea Hughes is an Alexander Technique teacher who has worked as a Production Designer for 25 years. " I understand the mental and physical demands of the media industry on both performers and practitioners. I want to help the people I understand to perform better and feel better".
Andrea has worked with musicians, actors and technicians on issues related to back, neck and wrist pain, shoulder problems and repetitive strain injury. She belongs to the Society of Teachers of Alexander Technique (STAT) and is CNHC registered.
Dr Alison Loram is an Alexander Technique teacher working extensively with musicians and performers. She has a great deal of experience helping student and professional violinists/viola players with their set up i.e. the interface of the instrument in relation to supporting/playing it. She teaches at Birmingham Conservatoire, RNCM and privately in both Crewe and Birmingham.
Alison qualified as a teaching member of PAAT in 1992 and has been a part-time lecturer in the Alexander Technique at Royal Birmingham Conservatoire since 1993 and a guest-lecturer at the Royal Northern College of Music since 2016.
Trained originally as a professional violinist at the Royal College of Music, Alison was drawn to the Alexander Technique by a persistent musculoskeletal problem specific to violin playing. Much of her teaching involves helping student and professional musicians prevent and overcome performance-related difficulties, and improve their performance and practise.
Following her Alexander Technique training, Alison has been a registered practitioner with the British Association of Performing Arts Medicine since 2008 and has given numerous talks and seminars at conferences and meetings, and in music colleges and university departments, to academics, healthcare professionals and performers alike. With a BSc and PhD in Biological Sciences and a number of years working as a post-doctoral researcher, in 2013, Alison gained an MSc in Performing Arts Medicine from University College London. Her research thesis “Chronic profession-limiting problems in musicians; Underlying mechanisms and neuroplastic routes to recovery”, undertaken with PAAT colleagues and movement scientists at Manchester Metropolitan University, can be found here.
Alison returned to violin playing ten years ago and, based in Crewe, performs as a soloist, recitalist, chamber musician and freelance orchestral player in the Midlands and the North West of England. She teaches the Alexander Technique to individuals and groups, in person and online.
Details of Alison’s Thesis (“Chronic profession-limiting problems in musicians: Underlying mechanisms and neuroplastic routes to recovery”) can be viewed here.
Her 2017 presentation to the UCL Institute of Education (“Explaining the Alexander Technique to clinicians and scientists”) can be viewed here.
Jessica Lee Morgan is an Alexander Technique teacher and singer songwriter and recording artist. Jessica has worked with vocalists and instrumentalists on posture training and psychophysical improvement. She can help with issues relating to voice use, preventing performance related pain and overuse/RSI-related problems, stress and anxiety management, and performance wellbeing.
Korina has taught Alexander Technique to many performing arts clients. Teaches at drama colleges including RADA, and works with musicians including Hampshire County Youth Orchestra. Worked with musicians such as pianists and violinists presenting with aches and pains, tension when using voices, and performance anxiety. Several practice locations in Hove and East Sussex.
Lucy Campion is an experienced Alexander Technique teacher working at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama (RWCMD) where she delivers individual and class tuition, and also serves as an academic supervisor in the subject. She works regularly with musicians and actors to help them improve the quality and manner of their performance. Lucy also trained as a musician and performs as a trumpet player, pianist, and choral singer. She also worked as an Orchestral Manager and a Music Department administrator at RWCMD.
Lucy began having lessons in the Alexander Technique during her time as a music student in 2006. Studying the Alexander Technique quickly became an integral part of her training as a musician, and regular lessons helped her through her physically and mentally demanding degree.
“Thanks to the study and practice of the Alexander Technique, I feel healthier, stronger, and more connected with myself than I ever thought possible. I enjoy greater flexibility and freedom in my movements, a noticeable improvement in my mental clarity, and an ever-growing confidence in myself and my abilities”.
Lucy trained with the Interactive Teaching Method and qualified as a teacher in 2021. Since then, Lucy has built her Alexander Technique teaching practice, and delivers workshops, courses, classes, and private lessons throughout South Wales. Her approach to teaching and learning is friendly, interactive, and accessible.
Malcolm Williamson (mSTAT) is an Alexander Technique teacher with over 40 years of experience in helping musicians and actors avoid and manage performance-related musculoskeletal pain, injuries, anxiety, rehabilitation, and healthy and effective practice regimes.
Malcolm graduated as a violist from the Royal College of Music and worked as an orchestral musician before and during his time as an Alexander Technique teacher at the Royal Northern College of Music. He has been Chair of the UK Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique and Head of Training at the Manchester Alexander Technique Training School.
Hidemi Hatada is a professional soprano singer and harpsichord & fortepiano player, and has 30 years of teaching experience in the application of Alexander Technique to musical (working with professional and student performers, instrumentalists, singers, actors and dancers privately and at institutions in both the UK and Japan), educational, medical and business situations.
Hidemi teaches at AT Training Schools in London and an Assessor and a Mentor in Society of Teachers of Alexander Technique (STAT).
Online and in person Alexander Technique lessons, for performers and instrumentalists. Trained at Royal Ballet School; professional dancer 10 years. BA Psychology. Qualified as Alexander teacher in 1987. Has taught musicians and performers both privately and in colleges. Visiting teacher at LCATT, Alexander Technique teacher training course.
Pete Robinson is an Alexander Technique teacher who has also worked as a professional musician, both as a performer, musical director and piano teacher.
He teaches Alexander Technique at the Royal Northern College of Music (RNCM) as well as privately in Manchester and Stockport.
He is experienced working with varied clients including Vocalists, instrumentalists, desk-based workers, actors and musical theatre performers.
Problems and conditions worked with include unhelpful habits in posture and movement, musculoskeletal disorders, repetitive/overuse injuries, dystonias, balance related issues and anxiety-related problems such as stage fright and excessive tension.
“The Alexander Technique helped me to recover from injury and also to improve the way that I performed as a musician and in many other areas of my life.
I have been fortunate to be able to give lessons, courses and workshops in the technique since graduating. My pupils come from a wide range of careers and interests and I have also specialised in working with musicians. I continue to teach many professional and student musicians from the Jazz, Classical and Popular Music world.”
Serena Woolf is a teacher of Alexander Technique, specialising in voice and breathing, musculoskeletal and chronic pain, neuropathies, joint hypermobility syndromes, chronic fatigue syndromes (CFS/ME type spectrums) and anxiety and stress. She is also an independent researcher in motor control with a particular interest in performing arts.
Her clinical interests include:
- Dystonia
- Polymyalgia, and types of inflammatory and infectious arthritis
- Kyphosis, lordosis, and scoliosis
- Back, neck, shoulder, and pelvic pain
- Persistent migraine
- Post-operative rehabilitation (particularly following musculoskeletal trauma)
- Parkinson’s disease and tremors
- Stress, trauma, and anxiety related disorders
Serena is a trained double bassist who plays the piano and works with musicians, vocalists, actors, dancers and gymnasts. I have an affinity with working with musicians, who are always very receptive to my approach and who respond very well.