Meet the ATCA Board
About
Robert Britton
ATCA Board member since 2020
Robert Britton (Bob) trained as an Alexander Technique teacher with Frank Ottiwell and Giora Pinkas, and graduated in 1978. He taught the Alexander Technique to musicians at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music for 39 years. He has helped train Alexander Technique Teachers since 1988 in San Francisco, Berkeley, Berlin and Hamburg.
He served as chairman of the American Society for the Alexander Technique (AmSAT) from 1997 to 1999, and he was a faculty member of the Bay Area Summer Opera Training Institute (BASOTI) for many years.
He was a co-director of the International Congress of the Alexander Technique in Lugano Switzerland in 2011 and Berlin in 2022. He also serves on the Board of the international Alexander Technique Congress Association.
He was chairman of the "Complete Musicians Department" of the San Francisco Conservatory and in 2012 Bob was awarded the George S. Sarlo Award which is given for excellence in teaching in Northern California universities and colleges.