Agnès de Brunhoff

In response to the back problems, injuries, nerves and tension which plague so many musicians and
actors, and in the light of her own experience working in film, theatre and concert, she has developed a revolutionary approach to musical coaching, adapting the Alexander Technique tools to the demands of instrumental and stage work, her method coming close to that of trainers in the sports sector.

First at the Guildhall School of Music and Drama and the European Union Youth Orchestra, then in her class at the Paris Conservatoire, her method of psychophysical preparation and application to instrumental practice has proved itself time and again, and she was invited to extend it to the Paris Opera Academy in 2018.

Agnès launched the Alexander Technique Training Centre (CFTAlexander) in October 2008, and she has since been training teachers in order to extend the professional reach of her method. The Centre receives visitors from all horizons – music students, people with back problems at work, etc.

The third edition of Agnès’s 2012/2015 book is available in translation as On stage! Back to yourself with Alexander Technique. She followed this by another in 2017, also available in English as Backstage mysteries of body and mind, and a third book in 2021, L’engagement détaché (Detached engagement), appeared in 2021, all published by Delatour France.