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Jan Baty, Adjunct Instructor, Alexander Technique
Adjunct Instructor, Alexander Technique
University of Delaware
Amy E. du Pont Music Building
Newark, DE 19716
302-368-5141
Biography
Jan Baty’s love of music led her to major in violin performance,
first at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., then at the Yale
School of Music, where she received the Master of Music in Applied
Violin. Ms. Baty continued her studies at Julliard, where she was
fortunate to study with Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann of the Juilliard
String Quartet. She continued to work with them over several summers at
the Aspen Music Festival, where she was assistant concertmaster of the
Aspen Festival Orchestra.
Ms. Baty spent three years with the
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, where her interest in playing string
quartets became increasingly apparent. She soon auditioned for and was
accepted into the Delos String Quartet, then one of the University of
Delaware’s ensembles in residence. The quartet was able to build a
career in the United States, and after winning an international
competition in Colmar, France, in Europe as well. During this time, Ms.
Baty was introduced to the Alexander Technique, which is an awareness
training — at once practical and profound — that helps one cooperate
with the body’s natural design for ease, grace and presence. The effect
that the Alexander Technique had on Ms. Baty — her life, her playing and
the quartet — was palpable.
Ms. Baty was fortunate to
apprentice with Marjorie Barstow, who was in Alexander’s first training
class in England and one of the first teachers to develop working with
groups. For 15 years, Ms. Baty was on the faculty for the Alexander
Alliance in Philadelphia, a teacher-training program for people who want
to teach the technique. She has also served on the board of Alexander
Technique International, the only international Alexander organization,
with members in Europe, Australia, Japan and other countries. For many
years she has organized and taught in a June Alexander intensive held
near Charlottesville, Va. This event draws people who are new to the
study as well as experienced teachers. The website iswww.theVillageGreen.net.
Ms.
Baty offers an Alexander Technique class during Spring Semester through
the Department of Music. The class is lively, exploratory and
life-changing for many who take it. As the class studies experiential
anatomy and how the body’s head, spine, arms and walking are organized
for ease of movement, habits of tension are recognized and fall away
again and again, allowing students to become more available to life.
What they learn about their bodies’ ease of functioning then affects
their expressivity, as they apply the principles of ease of movement to
their instruments.
| Amy E. du Pont Music Building | Newark, DE 19716 | <div class="ExternalClass03C381F641B44B5BA633D3EAAD13A7E8"><p>Jan Baty’s love of music led her to major in violin performance,
first at Eastman School of Music in Rochester, N.Y., then at the Yale
School of Music, where she received the Master of Music in Applied
Violin. Ms. Baty continued her studies at Julliard, where she was
fortunate to study with Dorothy DeLay and Robert Mann of the Juilliard
String Quartet. She continued to work with them over several summers at
the Aspen Music Festival, where she was assistant concertmaster of the
Aspen Festival Orchestra. <br></p><p>Ms. Baty spent three years with the
Montreal Symphony Orchestra, where her interest in playing string
quartets became increasingly apparent. She soon auditioned for and was
accepted into the Delos String Quartet, then one of the University of
Delaware’s ensembles in residence. The quartet was able to build a
career in the United States, and after winning an international
competition in Colmar, France, in Europe as well. During this time, Ms.
Baty was introduced to the Alexander Technique, which is an awareness
training — at once practical and profound — that helps one cooperate
with the body’s natural design for ease, grace and presence. The effect
that the Alexander Technique had on Ms. Baty — her life, her playing and
the quartet — was palpable. </p><p>Ms. Baty was fortunate to
apprentice with Marjorie Barstow, who was in Alexander’s first training
class in England and one of the first teachers to develop working with
groups. For 15 years, Ms. Baty was on the faculty for the Alexander
Alliance in Philadelphia, a teacher-training program for people who want
to teach the technique. She has also served on the board of Alexander
Technique International, the only international Alexander organization,
with members in Europe, Australia, Japan and other countries. For many
years she has organized and taught in a June Alexander intensive held
near Charlottesville, Va. This event draws people who are new to the
study as well as experienced teachers. The website is<a href="http://www.thevillagegreen.net/Home.html">www.theVillageGreen.net</a>. </p><p>Ms.
Baty offers an Alexander Technique class during Spring Semester through
the Department of Music. The class is lively, exploratory and
life-changing for many who take it. As the class studies experiential
anatomy and how the body’s head, spine, arms and walking are organized
for ease of movement, habits of tension are recognized and fall away
again and again, allowing students to become more available to life.
What they learn about their bodies’ ease of functioning then affects
their expressivity, as they apply the principles of ease of movement to
their instruments.</p></div> | <div class="ExternalClass4A2C682506C94BFCBBDD2D5E642432F4"><p><br></p></div><p></p> | | | | | | | | | | Janbaty7@gmail.com | jbaty@udel.edu | | Baty, Jan | | 302-368-5141 | <img alt="" src="/Images%20Bios/baty_jan.jpg" style="BORDER:0px solid;" /> | Adjunct Instructor, Alexander Technique | | | | | | <p>Bachelor of Music, Eastman School of Music<br>Master of Music, Yale School of Music</p> | | |
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