Wellbeing Sessions

cherry_forbes_pic_002.jpg Cherry Forbes, oboist and Education Director of the Orchestra of the Age of Enlightenment will share techniques used by professional musicians to enhance communication through music. She will discuss how the OAE has developed its education programme over the last 20 years and how the players...

Simple Yoga for Stressful Times with Anna Camilla Goldbeck Wood A message from Anna: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” - Leonardo da Vinci The stress of exams can be a threat to wellbeing, even without the added climate of global crisis. But the nature of our inner and environmental anxiety, and of this time of...

Krysia Osostowicz is best known for her work as leader of the Dante Quartet, and she is highly popular as a teacher of violin and chamber music at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama. Her passion for Beethoven's music stems from her early studies with Sandor Vegh - whose recordings of Beethoven's Quartets are legendary...

By heightening our awareness of our movement, breathing and posture, the Feldenkrais Method, also known as ‘Awareness Through Movement’, brings us closer to realising our full human potential. In this workshop we will discover how Feldenkrais can help us to play and sing with more pleasure and ease. Nicolette Moonen is a...

By heightening our awareness of our movement, breathing and posture, the Feldenkrais Method, also known as ‘Awareness Through Movement’, brings us closer to realising our full human potential. In this workshop we will discover how Feldenkrais can help us to play and sing with more pleasure and ease. Nicolette Moonen is a...

Head of Jazz at the Royal Academy, Nick Smart is a prominent jazz trumpet soloist and has led his own projects as well as performed in groups such as the Kenny Wheeler Big Band, the James Taylor Quartet and been conductor for Stan Sulzmann’s and Julian Siegel’s Big Bands, among others. Nick will bring repertoire to play in...

Alexander’s work explores how awareness influences how we function mentally, physically, and emotionally. It helps us find greater physical ease in movement and to create optimum conditions for performance and practising. In this class, we will study Alexander’s core discovery of a primary pattern of coordination in humans...

Alexander’s work explores how awareness influences how we function mentally, physically, and emotionally. It helps us find greater physical ease in movement and to create optimum conditions for performance and practising. In this class, we will study Alexander’s core discovery of a primary pattern of coordination in humans...