027 - Tina Margareta Nilssen unleashing the potential of singers bodies

Presented by Juliette Caton. Edited by Sam Benoiton.

Tina is the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support technique and performance for musicians. In 2013 she founded the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI) where she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students and soloists.

Tina has taught Timani workshops at amongst other Juilliard in New York, Yong Siew Toh Conservatory in Singapore, The Music Academy in Basel, Royal College of Music in London, The Royal Danish Music Academy in Copenhagen and for orchestras such as Mahler Chamber Orchestra and the Royal Swedish Opera Orchestra.

Her background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal Trainer, Kinetic Control Movement Therapist, twice a certified yoga teacher and through Kinaesthesia for pianists from the University of Arts in Berlin.

Tina has presented at many performing arts medicine conferences and symposiums, amongst other at PAMA in Hollywood, ISPS in Melbourne and MHPC in Helsinki. As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received several grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.

MAIN WEBSITE https://www.timani.no/ MEMBERSHIP https://www.timanicommunity.com/ BOOK https://giamusic.com/store/resource/unleashing-the-potential-of-the-musicians-body-book-10856 3-YEAR CERTIFICATION COURSE https://www.timanicertificationcourse.com/ PERSONAL WEBSITE AND BLOG https://www.tinanilssen.no/ PUBLISHED RESEARCH ARTICLE https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/fpsyg.2022.834012/full

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