Key Benefits of the Havas New Approach:
- Prevents and cures injuries caused by playing
- Relieves tension in the neck, shoulders, left hand and right arm
- Develops the inner ear
- Encourages musical imagination
- Improves technical ease (high positions, shifts, fast passages, playing in tune, bowing, etc.)
- Provides a systematic strategy that helps prevent memory slips.
- Supports performance well being.
The Havas New Approach was developed by celebrated teacher and author Kató Havas (1920–2018). It is based on a combination of her background as a child prodigy violinist trained in the Hungarian-European traditions, her deep admiration of the freedom of Romani virtuoso violin playing and her own ground-breaking investigation into the causes and cures of the underlying tensions and anxieties common in string playing. Read more
The work focuses on identifying and releasing tensions, and then systematically training a set of natural, horizontally-based interrelated balances in the body.
Havas’ simple, yet profound insistence on a driving rhythmic pulse underlying all movements and the development of inner musicality by singing and miming creates a truly holistic and ergonomic system. As tension is released, performance anxiety can be alleviated. The Havas approach requires energy, mental focus and training, but it is not forceful or physically difficult. Read more
All levels of players, from beginning to professional, can benefit from this unique approach.
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The Havas Approach was developed by celebrated teacher and author Kató Havas (1920-2018). It is based on a combination of her background as a child prodigy violinist trained in the Hungarian-European traditions, her awe of the freedom of gypsy playing, and her own ground-breaking investigation into the causes and cures of the underlying tensions and anxieties common in string playing.
The Havas Approach involves identifying and releasing tensions and training a set of natural, horizontally-based, inter-related balances in the body. Havas’ simple, yet profound insistence on a driving rhythmic pulse behind all movements and the development of one’s inner musicality by singing and miming create a truly holistic and ergonomic system. As a result of the prevention and release of tensions, performance
anxiety can be alleviated. The Havas Approach requires energy and training, but is not forceful or physically difficult.
The Havas Approach applies to all levels of playing and teaching from beginner to professional.