Stephen Caplan

Stephen Caplan, DMA is Professor of Oboe and Director of the College of Fine Arts Clinic for Health and Injury Prevention at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas. Author of Oboemotions and The Breathing Book, he also serves as a Sponsoring Teacher for the Association for Body Mapping Education.
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Healthy Teaching, Healthy Playing: Better Practice for Better Performance

Winter 2024; Vol. 15, No. 4

Allow me to explain this seeming contradiction. As a teacher of Body Mapping for two decades, I've seen how a better understanding of body mechanics powerfully transforms music performance. With greater body awareness, technical problems disappear—and so does mental anguish. Research shows that current injury...

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