Alun has been a professional violinist for more than twenty five years, playing in diverse roles with many major UK orchestras as a leader, principal player and also as a recitalist, soloist and chamber musician.

He is also an experienced Alexander Technique teacher and a member of STAT. Training in Brighton in the early 1990s on the course directed by John Nichols, he completed his Alexander Technique training at the Re-education Centre in Maidenhead with Ron Colyer and Ray Evans, also attending for a while as a postgraduate student on the course run by Walter Carrington.

During this time and subsequently he has been engaged in further developing his own playing and teaching drawing on many of the ideas that comprise the Alexander Technique, and discovering ways of helping other do the same.

He had his first Alexander lessons in the early 1980s with Vivienne Mackay whilst a student at the Royal Northern College of Music in Manchester and later studied with the first generation teacher, Tony Spawforth, in Bournemouth, whilst a member of the Bournemouth Sinfonietta. He has taught AT to players at all levels and has given workshops to diverse groups, including other Alexander teachers, on the subject of musicians’ preparation and the basics of natural playing. He also works regularly with children, including boys at the Sunningdale Prep School in Berkshire.

As Alexander Technique Coordinator at Trinity-Laban Conservatoire of Music in Greenwich until 2017, Alun has had much experience working with musicians in the profession and students intending to enter it. He has also taught instrumentalists and singers at the Guildhall School of Music and given workshops for several professional orchestras, including the orchestra of the Birmingham Royal Ballet. He has also worked with actors such as Richard Wilson and other performers including the RSC.

As a violinist he has had a high level career, playing frequently with many of the well know orchestras in the UK, in concerts, tours and recordings starting out after his student days at the RNCM with 4 years as Co-principal 2nd and later Sub-principal 1st violin with the Bournemouth Sinfonietta in the 1990s. Since then he has played in principal positions with various orchestras, including Guest Principal 2nd with the Royal Liverpool Philharmonic Orchestra, as leader of the orchestra of London City Ballet and as a regular 1st violin freelancer with other well known orchestras including Britten Sinfonia, (Royal) Northern Sinfonia, RPO and BBC Philharmonic.

Most of his current and more recent work has been as a recitalist and chamber musician with his own groups, Chamber Spectrum. He has given recitals widely, both as a chamber musician with groups including concerts with the Smith quartet and Triptych piano trio, of which he was a founder member, and with various duo partners.

These have included a recital for the ‘Young Music Makers” series on BBC Radio 3, in works by Bloch (Nigun) and Kreisler. He also has a love of the solo sonatas by Bach and has given performances of the complete cycle.

His passion for the violin coupled with his other main obsession – the working out for himself, and teaching others about the principles of the Alexander Technique has provided much continued inspiration for him to continue to develop his own playing. This quest has been to rediscover the art of violin playing, harking back to an age when patience really was a virtue……. He now helps others who also share this desire: to discover a way of playing based on more natural principles – embodied as they are in the understandings that inform the Alexander work.

Other interests that accompany him on this journey include keeping up with some recent discoveries in neuroscience. Such knowledge seems, in many ways, to connect with the experience of growth and ‘self’ learning that is central to the conscious control of our ‘use’. He continues to be interested in the science and growing understanding of brain plasticity. More recently, zen sitting and other disciplines have continued to help him along the way…..

He lives in Windsor with his partner and young daughter.