Fanny Wyrick-Flax is an Alexander Technique teacher and flutist in New York City.

ALEXANDER TECHNIQUE

Fanny Wyrick-Flax, m.AmSAT, began studying the Alexander Technique in 2011 and completed her teacher certification in 2022. In private lessons and group classes, Fanny helps people to access efficiency, coordination, and confidence in their daily lives.

Drawing from her background as a classically-trained flutist, Fanny works with performing artists to address and prevent performance-related injuries, cultivate openness and curiosity in the practice room, and tap into balanced fluidity and resonance on stage.

Fanny attended the Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique, a three-year training course certified by the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT). She trained with Nanette Walsh, Lori Schiff, Caren Bayer, and Ariel Carson.

Fanny is a faculty member of The Juilliard School, where she teaches Alexander Technique courses for musicians in the College Division and in the Preparatory Division. Fanny also serves as Assistant Faculty at the Riverside Initiative for the Alexander Technique. She has presented workshops and masterclasses in the Alexander Technique at Rutgers University’s Mason Gross School of the Arts, Pianophoria!, Orchestrating Dreams, and the Sapientia Center’s AT for All program. Fanny was also an Assistant Faculty member in Alexander Technique at Manhattan School of Music and at The Fordham Theatre Program.

Fanny teaches private lessons on Manhattan’s Upper West Side and in Chelsea. For more information about private lessons or group classes, use the contact form below, or follow Fanny on IG: @fawylax.

MUSIC

Fanny has performed with top orchestras in the New York tristate area including the New Jersey Symphony, American Ballet Theatre, and American Symphony Orchestra. Fanny is the core flutist in Contemporaneous and has performed at MATA, Prototype, and Fringe Festivals. Her recording with harpist Hannah Lash of Matthew Barnson’s duo for flutes and harp, I Crossed the Samuel Beckett Bridge at Dusk, can be heard on Spotify.

Fanny earned bachelor’s degrees in flute performance and mathematics from Bard College, and a master’s degree in flute performance from New England Conservatory. Her principal flute teachers include Bart Feller, Tara Helen O’Connor, and Cynthia Meyers.

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