Free Online Timani Masterclass with Tina Margareta Nilssen

11:00 - 13:00 or 19:00 - 21:00 (CET). See below for registration.

Join musicians from all around the world for this unique free online masterclass with Timani founder Tina Margareta Nilssen, open to all musicians and music teachers.

In this engaging and practical session, you'll be introduced to the Timani method — an effective approach that combines deep knowledge of anatomy with the physical realities of playing or singing. You'll discover how to access more efficient movement, avoid unnecessary tension, and improve your sound and technique through greater body awareness.

This masterclass includes live demonstrations, targeted exercises that everyone can try, and real-time application to music-making. Whether you join as an active participant (and receive personal feedback) or attend as an observer, you’ll gain valuable insights and tools to transform your practice.

🗓 Date: 4th August 2025
🕚 Time: 19:00–21:00 CET (and there’s also one at 11:00–13:00 CET, you can join one or both)
💸 Price: FREE

Register by clicking here: Masterclass #2 (19:00 - 21:00 CET) Registration

For the 11:00 - 13:00 Masterclass, click here: Masterclass #1 (11:00-13:00)

You will be able to register as an active (limited spaces) or observing participant.

Free Online Timani Masterclass with Tina Margareta Nilssen

11:00 - 13:00 or 19:00 - 21:00 (CET). See below for registration.

Join musicians from all around the world for this unique free online masterclass with Timani founder Tina Margareta Nilssen, open to all musicians and music teachers.

In this engaging and practical session, you'll be introduced to the Timani method — a effective approach that combines deep knowledge of anatomy with the physical realities of playing or singing. You'll discover how to access more efficient movement, avoid unnecessary tension, and improve your sound and technique through greater body awareness.

This masterclass includes live demonstrations, targeted exercises that everyone can try, and real-time application to music-making. Whether you join as an active participant (and receive personal feedback) or attend as an observer, you’ll gain valuable insights and tools to transform your practice.

🗓 Date: 4th August 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00–13:00 CET (and there’s also one at 19:00–21:00 CET, you can join one or both)
💸 Price: FREE

👉 Sign up by clicking here: Masterclass #1 (11:00 - 13:00) Registration

For the 19:00 - 21:00 masterclass, click here: Masterclass #2 (19:00 - 21:00)

You will have the option to register as an active (limited spaces) or observing participant.

Free Online Timani Masterclass with Tina Margareta Nilssen

11:00 - 13:00 or 19:00 - 21:00 (CET). See below for registration.

Join musicians from all around the world for this unique free online masterclass with Timani founder Tina Margareta Nilssen, open to all musicians and music teachers.

In this engaging and practical session, you'll be introduced to the Timani method — a powerful approach that combines deep knowledge of anatomy with the physical realities of playing or singing. You'll discover how to access more efficient movement, avoid unnecessary tension, and improve your sound and technique through greater body awareness.

This masterclass includes live demonstrations, targeted exercises that everyone can try, and real-time application to music-making. Whether you join as an active participant (and receive personal feedback) or attend as an observer, you’ll gain valuable insights and tools to transform your practice.

🗓 Date: 23rd June 2025
🕚 Time: 19:00–21:00 CET (and there’s also one at 11:00–13:00 CET, you can join one or both)
💸 Price: FREE

Register by clicking here: Masterclass #2 (19:00 - 21:00 CET) Registration

For the 11:00 - 13:00 Masterclass, click here: Masterclass #1 (11:00-13:00)

Let us know if you wish to be active (limited spaces) or observing participant.

Free Online Timani Masterclass with Tina Margareta Nilssen

11:00 - 13:00 or 19:00 - 21:00 (CET). See below for registration.

Join musicians from all around the world for this unique free online masterclass with Timani founder Tina Margareta Nilssen, open to all musicians and music teachers.

In this engaging and practical session, you'll be introduced to the Timani method — a powerful approach that combines deep knowledge of anatomy with the physical realities of playing or singing. You'll discover how to access more efficient movement, avoid unnecessary tension, and improve your sound and technique through greater body awareness.

This masterclass includes live demonstrations, targeted exercises that everyone can try, and real-time application to music-making. Whether you join as an active participant (and receive personal feedback) or attend as an observer, you’ll gain valuable insights and tools to transform your practice.

🗓 Date: 23rd June 2025
🕚 Time: 11:00–13:00 CET (and there’s also one at 19:00–21:00 CET, you can join one or both)
💸 Price: FREE

👉 Sign up by clicking here: Masterclass #1 (11:00 - 13:00) Registration

For the 19:00 - 21:00 masterclass, click here: Masterclass #2 (19:00 - 21:00)

Let us know if you wish to be active (limited spaces) or observing participant.

Understand how tension can impact performance and enhance your performance by knowing the anatomy and muscular coordination behind your technique.

Time: 1.5 hour workshop, 20:00 - 21:30 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Thursday 10th April 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Workshop set-up

In the workshop, you’ll learn

• A lot of knowledge about what tension is, how to use it in singing and playing, and how to let go excess tension.

• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing

• Implementation of the exercises while playing or singing

You’ll deepen your knowledge about the anatomy behind the exercises and gain insight into how this understanding influences how we play and sing.

The Essentials of Timani

Singing or playing an instrument requires complex, coordinated, and refined use of more than 600 muscles in your body. Timani helps you to understand your own anatomy and the relationship between your brain, body, and voice or instrument. It’s designed to improve the way you stand, sit, breathe, and move using individually customized exercises that offer the following benefits:

Musicality – enhancing technique, sound, timing, and creating more natural phrasing

Coordination –understanding the coordination needed to sing or play your instrument effortlessly

Health – knowing how you use your body to minimize the risk of performance-related injury or pain caused by misalignment and compensatory muscular patterns

Confidence –understanding the relationship between body and mind, which creates positive psychological effects and improves focus in the practice room and on stage

Potential –reaching your full potential as a musician by acquiring tools that will enable you to express yourself without being compromised by physical limitations

Course Instructor: Tina Margareta Nilssen

Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from youth- and professional orchestras, chamber music groups, music students and soloists.

Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.

As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received a number of grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Understand how the shoulders can impact performance and enhance your performance by knowing the anatomy and muscular coordination behind your technique.

WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians

Time: 1.5 hour workshop, 20:00 - 21:30 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Wednesday 9th April 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Workshop set-up

In the workshop, you’ll learn

• A lot of knowledge about the shoulders, including the anatomy, the function, and their impact on playing or singing.

• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing

• Implementation of the exercises while playing or singing

You’ll deepen your knowledge about the anatomy behind the exercises and gain insight into how this understanding influences how we play and sing.

The Essentials of Timani

Singing or playing an instrument requires complex, coordinated, and refined use of more than 600 muscles in your body. Timani helps you to understand your own anatomy and the relationship between your brain, body, and voice or instrument. It’s designed to improve the way you stand, sit, breathe, and move using individually customized exercises that offer the following benefits:

Musicality – enhancing technique, sound, timing, and creating more natural phrasing

Coordination –understanding the coordination needed to sing or play your instrument effortlessly

Health – knowing how you use your body to minimize the risk of performance-related injury or pain caused by misalignment and compensatory muscular patterns

Confidence –understanding the relationship between body and mind, which creates positive psychological effects and improves focus in the practice room and on stage

Potential –reaching your full potential as a musician by acquiring tools that will enable you to express yourself without being compromised by physical limitations

Course Instructor: Tina Margareta Nilssen

Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from youth- and professional orchestras, chamber music groups, music students and soloists.

Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.

As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received a number of grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Improve your breathing and enhance your performance by knowing the anatomy and muscular coordination behind your technique.

WHO IS IT FOR: Performing musicians of any age, instrument/voice or genre, university professors, music school teachers, amateur musicians, practitioners working with musicians

Time: 1.5 hour workshop, 20:00 - 21:30 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Tuesday 8th April 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Workshop set-up

In the workshop, you’ll learn

• A lot of knowledge about breathing for singers and winds. This can also be applied in other instruments too!

• Targeted exercises to access some new muscles and expand the movement options while playing or singing

• Implementation of the exercises while playing or singing

You’ll deepen your knowledge about the anatomy behind the exercises and gain insight into how this understanding influences how we play and sing.

The Essentials of Timani

Singing or playing an instrument requires complex, coordinated, and refined use of more than 600 muscles in your body. Timani helps you to understand your own anatomy and the relationship between your brain, body, and voice or instrument. It’s designed to improve the way you stand, sit, breathe, and move using individually customized exercises that offer the following benefits:

Musicality – enhancing technique, sound, timing, and creating more natural phrasing

Coordination –understanding the coordination needed to sing or play your instrument effortlessly

Health – knowing how you use your body to minimize the risk of performance-related injury or pain caused by misalignment and compensatory muscular patterns

Confidence –understanding the relationship between body and mind, which creates positive psychological effects and improves focus in the practice room and on stage

Potential –reaching your full potential as a musician by acquiring tools that will enable you to express yourself without being compromised by physical limitations

Course Instructor: Tina Margareta Nilssen

Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she runs a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing. Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from youth- and professional orchestras, chamber music groups, music students and soloists.

Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.

As a pianist, she holds a MA from the Norwegian Academy of Music in Oslo (Prof. Jens Harald Bratlie) and has performed solo and duet recitals in Norway, Denmark, Germany, Switzerland, Spain, England, USA, Moscow, Italy, New York, and Philadelphia amongst other. She has released four critically acclaimed CDs and has received a number of grants and awards, including the two-year Norwegian artists’ working grant from the Norwegian Arts Council, Jansons Fund, RWE-Dea, and the Norwegian Fund for Performing Artists.

For more information and to sign up, click HERE

Join our FREE online webinar on January 29 and learn how understanding your anatomy can help you release tension and unlock greater freedom in your music making.

As musicians, we often strive to play or sing with ease and flow. In this webinar, you’ll gain valuable insights into how to reduce tension, improve the quality of your movement, and create a strong foundation for expressive, confident performances.

Time: 1 hour workshop, 15:00 - 16:00 CET (Central European Time)

Date: Wednesday 29th January 2025

Place: Online

Cost: Free

Apply here: https://bit.ly/musicians-anatomy

As singers we are very dependent on the coördination skills of our body. The interplay of muscular use is really complex, and it is therefore useful to have specific knowledge about what is actually going on when we play and sing. This is where Timani comes in as a unique supplement to develop a deep understanding of the body and its function while playing and singing, based on anatomy and science.

Tina is the founder of the Musicians’ Health and Movement Institute (MHMI), the author of "Unleashing the potential of the musician's body" and the creator of the movement system Timani, which develops a deep understanding of the body to support musical technique and performance. At the MHMI she founded a 3-year part-time certification program for professional musicians, training them to become Timani teachers and how to implement the knowledge in their own playing.

Since 2007 she has taught Timani to thousands of musicians from all over the world, everything from orchestras, chamber music groups, students and soloists.

Tina’s background in anatomy and movement comes from her studies as a Massage Therapist, Personal trainer (Norwegian Sports Academy), Kinetic Control Movement Therapist and twice a certified yoga teacher (200 and 300 hours), psychosomatic bodyworker, and mental coach.

In this workshop you will get:

- A clear overview of technique, sound, power and relaxation

- Theoretical knowledge about relevant anatomy that every musician should know

- Physical exercises to enhance coördination and to promote new discoveries of your physical potential through ‘waking up’ new muscles

- Inspiration to develop further as a singer while developing mastery of you body-brain connection

Teacher: Tina Margareta Nilssen

Price: 130 euro ex BTW (157,30 euro BTW included)

Workshop with Tina’s book included: 165 euro (ex BTW)

Location: Het element, Zilverschoonplein 18, Zaandam

Language: English

Tea and snack included (bring your own lunch)

N.B. The focus in this workshop is mainly aimed at singers, but also open for musicians that play other instruments since the Timani principles are relevant to all musicians

More information or questions? info@mariekevandiepen.nl