Marta Atcher

Department of Education and Artistic Mediation

matcher@esmuc.cat

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Education


  • Master’s Degree in Music Education. Universidad Internacional de La Rioja (UNIR), 2025–2026.

  • Postgraduate Programme in the Alexander Technique. Alexander Technique Centre Amsterdam (ATCA), 2025–2026.

  • Advanced Training in Historically Informed Performance. Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 2024–2025.

  • Master’s Degree in Historically Informed Performance, specialising in Baroque violin. Conservatorium van Amsterdam, 2022–2024.

  • Alexander Technique Teacher Diploma (1,600 hours). Alexander Technique Centre Amsterdam (ATCA), 2018–2021.

  • Bachelor’s Degree in Music Performance, specialising in classical violin. Conservatorium Maastricht, 2014–2018.


Additional training in body awareness, pedagogy and musicians’ health: The Developing Self Training Course, Changing the Stimulus, Healthy Conservatoires – Mental Health, BAPAM – Professional Boundaries and Freedom & Ease for Violinists and Violists.

Research


  • Health, learning and musical performance.

  • Psychophysical education and the teaching of body awareness.

  • Alexander Technique applied to instrumental practice and performance preparation.

  • Conceptions of the body and mind in the 17th and 18th centuries and their influence on musical performance.

Publications


  • Atcher Soler, M. (2024). The Influence of Western Bodymind Understanding in the 17th and 18th Centuries on Musicians’ Performance. Assaig, Conservatorium van Amsterdam.

Career

Marta Atcher Soler is an Alexander Technique teacher, Baroque violinist and music educator. For more than ten years, she developed her professional career in the Netherlands, combining teaching with musical performance.

As a Baroque violinist, she collaborates with ensembles and orchestras in several European countries, including Vespres d’Arnadí, Bach Collegium Barcelona, Orquestra Barroca de Catalunya, Hemiolia Ensemble, Northern Consort and Eik en Linde. She also participates in chamber music projects aimed at bringing music to new audiences.

In the field of education, she has taught body awareness and the Alexander Technique at Codarts Rotterdam and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam since 2023, and was an assistant teacher at the Alexander Technique Centre Amsterdam for five years. In parallel, she has taught individual lessons and workshops for musicians, students and performing arts professionals, as well as violin lessons at music schools.

Her research focuses on health, learning and musical performance, with particular emphasis on integrating psychophysical education into higher music education.

Since September 2026, she has been based professionally in Catalonia. She is a member of the Department of Education and Artistic Mediation at the Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC) and of the Alexander Technique teaching team at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid.

She is a member of APTAE (Asociación de Profesores de Técnica Alexander de España) and was previously a member of NeVLAT (Nederlandse Vereniging van Leraren in de Alexander Techniek).