Alexander Technique for Musicians

The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a unique guide for all musicians, providing a practical, informative approach to being a successful and comfortable performer. Perfect as an introduction to the Alexander Technique, or to supplement the reader's lessons, the book looks at daily and last-minute practice, breathing, performance and performance anxiety, teacher–pupil relationships, ensemble skills, and the application of the Alexander Technique to instrumental and vocal work.

Complete with diagrams and photographs to aid the learning process, as well as step-by-step procedures and diary entries written by participating students, The Alexander Technique for Musicians gives tried-and-tested advice, drawn from the authors' twenty-plus years of experience working with musicians, providing an essential handbook for musicians seeking the most from themselves and their art.

Peter Buckoke runs the Alexander Technique and is Professor of double bass at The Royal College of Music (London). He has created the five Alexander course available to the RCM students at undergraduate and postgraduate levels.
He is known as a chamber musician playing double bass, as a founder member, with The Schubert Ensemble and other chamber groups by invitation. He writes for musical journals about 'bass playing and the Alexander Technique. His first book, The Alexander Technique for Musicians is a collaboration with his wife Judith Kleinman, it is published by Bloomsbury Methuen Drama. In his spare time Peter looks after several colonies of bees.