TEACHING
”As a musician, I am autodidact, "self-taught". At least I thought so until one day I realized that there is no such thing as a self-taught musician. Everyone has learned from someone, even if it is not always called ”school”. I myself have learned by traveling and meeting musicians in different contexts and in different genres. Listen, listen, listen and copy. My first strong contact with higher education in music was when I became a guest professor at the Sibelius Academy in Helsinki in 2000.
Teaching is incredibly stimulating. It summarizes and formulates one's life experiences and to pass them on gives a better understanding of yourself as a creative person."
Ale Möller has been a guest professor at the Ingesund Academy of Music (Karlstad University, Sweden), the Sibelius Academy (Helsinki, Finland) and the Danish National Academy of Music (Esbjerg, Denmark). He also runs an annual education course for professional musicians at Stensunds Folkhögskola outside Stockholm.
“Alekursen”
Further training for professional musicians
The course is based on practical playing in both smaller and bigger ensembles, and the theoretical training will always have its starting point in the practical reality. Focus is on arranging, composition and improvisation through several tools that become useful in meetings between music from different cultures and traditions. Technical skills that make it possible for new music to be born from these meetings.
"I see that many musicians, even on a high level, suffer from the lack of some important knowledge tools. Tools that are needed to feel comfortable and free in musical meetings, where insecurity often gets in the way for the joy of playing. For the same reasons many musicians can´t cross the threshold to start improvising and composing their own music. Therefore, this course is basically about taking control over your own musicianship!"
- Ale
