Eileen Troberman

Biography

Eileen Troberman is a teaching member of the American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique and Alexander Technique International beginning her study of the Technique in 1978.  In 1982, she graduated the 3-year full-time Alexander Technique Teacher-Training program under directors Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas becoming a certified teacher.  Also, in 1978 Eileen began many years of study with Marjorie Barstow (1899-1995), the first teacher to graduate F.M. Alexander's 1st teacher-training course. Marjorie was the first teacher F.M. Alexander certified to teach his technique and she was known for developing a unique and practical approach in teaching the Alexander Technique to performers. Eileen apprenticed with Marjorie for over 15 years.  She is one of only a few Alexander teachers to have both been trained by Marjorie Barstow and also traditionally trained and certified.  Eileen has also studied with other master Alexander teachers from Alexander's first teacher training course and combines all the branches of Alexander teaching styles, and more, in her work with actors. Eileen has a particular interest in functional anatomy and the mind/body interface of intention and movement.  She is a certified practitioner of the Feldenkrais method, completing her 4-year Feldenkrais practitioner training in 2002.  Eileen is twice certified in the Art of Breathing by Jessica Wolf, combining the breathwork of F.M. Alexander and Carl Stough. Eileen has taught Alexander Technique for the Cirque Du Soleil “O” show and presented at the Freedom to Act Conference in New York, as well as having taught numerous other workshops and classes for performers throughout the world.  She also teaches in the UCSD MFA Graduate Acting program and maintains a busy private practice in Encinitas.

Blair’s curiosities regarding song and theatre spark frequent collaborations with actors, singers, and dancers. Most recently, he has worked closely with Grammy-winning soprano Susan Narucki and the kallisti vocal ensemble as the repetiteur and vocal coach for premieres of contemporary operas, most notably Lei Liang’s Inheritance and Stephen Lewis’s Noon at Dusk. He also performed as “Muse” and composed music for Lisa Peterson and Denis O’Hare’s two-person An Iliad with actor Danielle Wineman.

In addition to his music instruction at UC San Diego, Blair currently holds additional appointments as the Staff Pianist/Accompanist for the Department of Music, and as a Lecturer/Vocal Coach for the Department of Theatre & Dance.

He received his Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Contemporary Music Performance from the University of California San Diego in 2018 under the mentorship of Aleck Karis.

Education

American Society of Teachers of the Alexander Technique

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