Cat Jary - AMS director
Cat Jary is a professional cellist and teacher of the Alexander Technique, often combining the two in her work with musicians with injuries and tension.
From an early age she experienced chronic pain when playing the cello and took Alexander lessons to help. The reduction in pain and tension, along with a greater ease of playing, convinced Cat to train as an Alexander teacher.
Since qualifying, Cat has been invited to teach and present workshops for various groups and institutions such as Trinity College of Music, the ISM, ISSTIP, the European Union Youth Orchestra and the award-winning City of Sheffield Youth Orchestra.
Cat teaches the Performing Arts module at The Alexander Teacher Training School, London W1, as well as individual sessions at the Alexander Studio, Balderton Street, W1, and in Sheffield.
In 2003 she founded the Alexander Music School (AMS), offering workshops and masterclasses throughout the UK, and residential courses in the Alpujarras mountains of Southern Spain.
Cat maintains a busy life as a musician, freelancing, playing chamber music and in 2004 initiated the festival Music in the Mountains in the Alpujarras mountains, Spain.
In 2005, she moved to live in AMS, Las Alpujarras, full-time, where she now has a healthy teaching practice, an interesting programme of Alexander courses which attract people to come from all over the world. The festival, Music in the Mountains has quickly gained a loyal following of musicians and audience, and led to the forming of a local choir, who appeared on national Spanish Television in summer 2009.
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