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| The Academy was founded in 2002 in connection with the Alexander Technique Centre(ATC)Kyoto, Japan www.alexandertechnique.ne.jp to create a new kind of cultural forum in Japan. Since then IMA Maestro offers fundamental education for pianists combined with qualified lessons in the Alexander Technique and regular concerts with international artists. Every month invited musicians play various classical programs on Sunday afternoon. |
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| Education Piano & Alexander Technique in connection with the Alexander Technique Center Kyoto, Japan www.alexandertechnique.ne.jp. Do you belong to a group of musicians and performing artists who remember that they are delicate instruments too? If you would like to experience more ease, confidence,a fuller range of expression as an artist and performer, and have more presence with your self, your instrument and music,and your audience you may visit our lessons. For over 100 years the Alexander Work has been helping individuals enhance their kinesthetic integrity by letting go of unconscious mind and body habits that interfere with their natural way of being and performing in life. |
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Lessons In our lessons they experience the innate lightness, ease, and grace that comes when thinking and movement are one integrated action; thus giving up the stress and disconnectedness that comes when mind and body are split,and thinking and movement are seperate. Participants of our lessons for pianists cultivate their personal sensitivity and can have individual "hands on" experience with the Alexander Technique in connection with the Alexander Technique Centre Kyoto,Japan www.alexandertechnique.ne.jp. |
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| Seminar,Salonconcert International Music Academy Maestro is connected with the Alexander Centre (ATC) Kyoto,Japan and its second and third studios in Osaka & Tokyo .The institutions offer individual lessons, introductory workshops and seminars for musicians ("The Alexander Technique and Enhancing the Quality of Your Performances") in Hiroshima (Elisabeth University of Music), Chiba, Kobe, Nishinomiya (Nishinomiya Music Society), Osaka (Osaka University of Arts, YAMAHA Music Osaka, Musicians' Union of Japan, Osaka Musikverein), Kyoto (Kyoto Women's University / Kyoto City University of Arts) Tokyo and other japanese cities. For more details about the Alexander Work for instrumentalists and how to bring an Alexander workshop to your area contact the IMA Maestro or the Alexander Technique Centre (ATC) in Kyoto- info@.alexandertechnique.ne.jp. |
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Profile Lucas Lorenzi Born in Freiburg, Germany. Coming from a musical family, he worked as a flutist in various state music schools in Europe. From 1982 to 85 he had education at the teachers training school for F.M.Alexander Technique Basel, Switzerland. Lucas Lorenzi had significant involvement with schools and their trainings and has been instructor for the Alexander Technique at the State Conservartory of Music Trossingen and the European Parliament in Strasbourg. Intensively he taught the Technique in music performance clases to a huge variety of orchestra players, chamber musicians, soloists and professors and has given many seminars and courses. The class of Lucas Lorenzi has gained high reputation among many of orchestra musicians, soloists, music students, who aim at having progress or suffer from an occupational desease.He was certified by the London based Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique STAT and is now an active teaching member of the japanese branch Japan's Solidarity of Teachers of the Alexander Technique JSTAT (www.jstat.jp).In 2004 he founded the Japan Alexander Teaching and Training Corporation JATTC. Lucas Lorenzi directs the Alexander Technique Centre (ATC) Kyoto - www.alexandertechnique.ne.jp - where private Alexander lessons, workshops and teacher training in the Alexander Technique are offered. He playes original wood and silver flutes made by the world famous masters of the Hammig family. |
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Junko Kasahara Born in New Jersey, USA. Studied at the Osaka University of Arts, Japan and continued her studies as a postgraduate student at the St.Petersburg State Conservatory, Ecole Normal de Paris, and the Musikhochschule Saarbruecken (Konzert& Solisten Examen)in Germany. She has been invited to many international music festivals and given numerous recitals in Japan, Germany, Spain,France, Italy, Israel, Russia,Finland, USA and Latin America. Junko Kasahara has also played chamber music with many musicians such as Berliner Philharmoniker members, Zagreb string quartet and played with many orchestras in Europe and Japan. |
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