The Alexander Technique has been taught at the Royal Academy of Music for over 25 years.

Every student at the Academy has the opportunity to have individual lessons in the Alexander Technique for one year. Although FM Alexander was not a musician, it is musicians, possibly more than any other profession who have recognised its benefits. The Technique is taught in all the major conservatories of music in the UK, as well as in specialist secondary music schools.

Many performers believe the Alexander Technique to be an indispensable foundation for such a demanding and competitive profession. The Technique helps us to allow the release of unnecessary tensions, the changing of habits acquired through years of physical misuse, and the prevention of interference with delicate mechanisms of balance.

Alexander Technique at the Royal Academy of Music is partly financed by a fund established by Lady Colin Davis (Shamsi Davis - one of the Academy's teachers) and Sir Colin Davis.  Sir Colin regularly donates his services to concerts at the Academy the proceeds of which go to the fund. Alexander Technique lessons at the Royal Academy of Music are free.

“Early in my professional career the celebrated conductor Sir Adrian Boult - who had himself had Alexander lessons - sent me for lessons in the Technique. - My boy! - he said - You'll end up crippled if you go on like that. -  I have been a pupil of the Technique now for over forty years - the benefits to me have been immeasurable - and I would recommend all students to take advantage of the programme of lessons available at the Royal Academy of Music.”
- Sir Colin Davis CBE, Hon RAM, pictured above
 International Chair of Conducting and Orchestral Studies

"Before I studied in London I had not known about the Alexander Technique because unfortunately we don't have it in my city - Budapest, Hungary. I can thank the Royal Academy of Music for helping me discover the Technique and all its benefits. I had lessons for eighteen months and I feel that I changed a lot very positively. I think now that the Alexander Technique is one of the greatest things for a musician - and not only for your playing but also for your whole life."
- Zsuzsa Vamosi-Nagy, pictured above.
Postgraduate flute student, now studying for her doctorate in Budapest

The Alexander Technique Teachers at the Royal Academy of Music - all of whom have trained on a Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique (STAT) approved course - are
Shamsi Davis Hon FRAM
Margaret Edis
Graham Griffiths ARAM
Ilana Machover
Dorothea Magonet Hon ARAM
Paul Moore (Head of Department)
Tess Miller
Jan Steele

More information about the Technique can be obtained from STAT, from where it will be possible to find more information about the benefit of the Technique for musicians.