To supplement instrument courses, additional options can help make your stay even more comfortable, broaden your musical horizons or develop new skills...
Practice room with piano
The practice room option guarantees the availibity of a practice room with a piano, to share with a maximum of one other student. The room is nominatively allocated and can be accessed from 9.00 am to 19.45 pm which allow you to work at least 5 hours a day.
NB : Students without option can access to practice rooms depending on availability.
Piano accompaniment
The workshop is conducted by the Académies' teachers for piano students who wish to be introduced to accompanying tools or deepen their knowledge. Sight-reading, reductions (choir, quartet...), transposition, keyboard harmony and accompaniment approach in group work will be covered in order to be able to guide, listen and quickly apprehend a new score.
Sight-reading
The workshop covers voice and instrument accompaniment, musical score sight-reading through practice exercises and various simulations. Harmonisation and transposition work can also be studied.
Piano-Lied
This workshop is designed for pianists, singers and piano-voice duos. The course will cover technical performance with constant link to the knowledge and understanding of the text. Students will deepen their rendition, phrasing, diction, musical colours, voici-piano articulation, stage presence...
Keyboard harmonisation
This workshop helps to deepen conscious listening through a method mixing introduction to basso continuo, improvisation approach, work on baroque "standards", on transposition, didactic work...
l'écoute intérieure
Improvisation
Divided in small groups based on level, the workshop offers a framework to express a musical and collective language. It is open to all who wish to partake in this equally fun and serious discipline.