WELCOME TO THE TIMANI INTRODUCTORY COURSE FOR ALL INSTRUMENTALISTS AND SINGERS
Play or sing with more ease
Learn simple instrument specific exercises and get a personal analysis of what you can do to play or sing more effortlessly
Learn the physical requirements for the fingers, wrists, arms, and shoulders when playing our instrument, or for the breathing when singing or playing winds?
Learn which muscles we need to strengthen, and which muscles need to relax to give optimal and comfortable technique?
What is good posture, and why is it necessary for good movement?
These are topics we will explore in detail by learning anatomy and specific physical exercises, and how to transfer this directly into playing or singing
Date: 8th – 9th JUNE, 2024
Time: Saturday and Sunday both days 10am – 3pm CET
(If you live in a different time zone, you can check here for the time difference: https://www.timeanddate.com/time/map/)
Place: Online, live classes through zoom platform
Instructor: Tina Margareta Nilssen, pianist, author of “Unleashing the potential of the musicians’ body” (GIA Publications) and creator of the movement system Timani which provides a deep understanding of the body specifically for musicians
Price: €250 / NOK2500. Fee includes the Timani manual received on e-mail before course beginning.
The course is open to anyone who wants to develop as a musician and/or music teacher.
This course is included if you’re currently doing or have signed up for the 3 year part-time Timani Certification Course 2024 (ask Jay by sending an e-mail to jay@timani.no for your sign-up code)
Workshop description:
In this workshop we will go through some basic anatomy and exercises specifically aimed at the challenges of your specific instrument. We’ll immediately put the theory into practice at the instrument to see how it can be made relevant for you in the practice room. The results of changing your muscular balance can be positive effects in sound production, timing, legato and shaping musical lines, as well as injury prevention and pain reduction.
We will cover the following:
• Theory and anatomy relevant to musicians
• A simple anatomical analysis of ones playing (bring your scores to the workshop)
• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing
• Implementation of the exercise while playing, observing changes of coordination, timing, phrasing, and sense of performing
Timani - move better to play better
Playing and instrument or singing requires complex, coordinated, and refined use of more than 600 muscles in your body. Through learning Timani, it can help you to understand your own anatomy and the relationship between your brain, body, and instrument.
Timani is used by musicians worldwide – from soloists to entire ensembles, and from students to established professionals – whether they have already experienced performance-related pain or injury or want to prevent them arising in the first place. Timani is becoming increasingly popular in schools and colleges, taught by an ever-increasing network of teachers in fifteen countries who are inspired to pass on its benefits to musicians everywhere.
Using individually customized in Timani, they are designed to improve the way you stand, sit, breathe, and move. This may offer the following benefits:
Musicality: Discover new levels of artistry as you refine your technique, develop natural phrasing, and connect with your musicality through your body.
Coordination: Gain a deep understanding of the precise coordination required to effortlessly sing or play your instrument, ensuring seamless execution and more precise musical phrasing by enhancing muscular balance.
Health: Learn how to optimize your body's movements, reduce the risk of performance-related injuries, and reduce discomfort and pain caused by misalignment or compensatory muscle patterns.
Confidence: Knowing more about which movements and muscles to access can boost your confidence, focus, and presence both in practice and on stage.
Potential: Unleash your true musical potential by acquiring invaluable tools that allow you to express yourself authentically and overcome physical limitations.
“Timani provides a whole new awareness when it comes to exactly what we need with regard to the requirements of musicians. I am happy that I found something as specialized as this.”
– Leif Ove Andsnes, pianist
Tina Margareta Nilssen
Tinas international teaching career has brought her to give workshops at amongst other the Juilliard School in New York, Colburn School in Los Angeles, Royal College of Music in London, YST Conservatory in Singapore, The Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen and for orchestras such as Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Swedish Orchestra in Stockholm.
She is the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" (GIA Publications, 2023) and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. In 2013 she founded the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI) where she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students, and soloists.
Her background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist, twice a certified yoga teacher and kinaesthesia for pianists from the University of Arts in Berlin.
As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia and more. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received several grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.
Her passion is to help musicians play or sing in a healthier and more effective way that allows the music to flow through more effortlessly. Through learning concrete anatomical knowledge and teach practical exercises she provides answers to common challenges at each instrument, such as vibrato, tense shoulders, breathing, flexibility, timing and sound.
“It is her exquisite and perfectly measured playing that produces such a sense of detached time and space. Her playing is effortless, masterful and lush.”
The Vinyl Anachronist, Marc Phillips, New
Want to join, write to: post@timani.no