FSMSI Mention SON - 1e cycle - 1er Cycle

COMPETITIVE ENTRANCE EXAMINATION 2025-2026:

Age limit: under 27 on¹ October 2025 (born after 01/10/1998).

Application dates: from 10 January to 10 April 2025 online at www.conservatoiredeparis.fr.

The application must be finalised online before 10 April 2025. The project must be submitted by midnight on 25 May 2025 at the latest on the Conservatoire's application platform.

1) Applicants must meet the following prerequisites:

• BAC+2 level in science
• D.E.M. level from a conservatory of music. Candidates must therefore have a very good knowledge of music theory, a good musical culture, a knowledge of composition (harmony and/or counterpoint) and musical analysis (the pre-selection of applications by the jury will take place on 30 April 2025).

2) ELIGIBILITY

Completion of a personal project - must be submitted by midnight on 25 May 2025 on the Conservatoire's registration platform.

Candidates must submit a personal sound or video project demonstrating a degree of originality or creativity or simply showing a certain level of technical mastery.

The project is free and can take any form: score, recorded music, model, sound recording, sound fiction, soundtrack for images, film music, sound design, video creation, audiovisual music clip, short film, video sequence of filmed music, etc. The project must be accompanied by an application form.

The project must be accompanied by an explanatory note detailing its implementation (artistic aims, choices, constraints, locations and tools used) as well as an assessment of the result obtained. Candidatesshould highlight what they themselvesimplemented and how. This note may be very short (one paragraph) and may under no circumstances exceed 10 pages.

Music tests (21 May 2025) :

• Mistake detection (written)
• 2-voice dictation, chord dictation, atonal dictation
• Recognition of keys and cadences
• Recognition of fragments of classical works
• Recognition of fragments of works (jazz and contemporary music)
• Written test of comparative analysis (3h30)

Mathematics and physics tests (22 May 2025) :

The level of the problems and questions asked ranges from Bac level with a focus on science to Bac + 2 level with a focus on science.

• Mathematics: test covering the elements of mathematics used in acoustics, electro-acoustics, electronics and signal processing (periodic exponential functions, logarithms, complex numbers, development in series, notions of differential and integral calculus) (duration 3 hours).
• Physics: statistics and dynamics, energy, work, power, electricity, load, voltage, current, resistance, capacity, induction, electric and magnetic fields, direct and alternating currents. Optical phenomena, vibratory phenomena: propagation, reflection, refraction, diffraction, interference, maintenance and damping (duration 3 hours)

3) ADMISSION

• Musical training oral test (17 June 2025)
• Harmonisation of a melody in the classical style (knowledge of all foreign chords and notes) (6 hours) (17 June 2025)
• Comparative analysis test based on films, videos or extracts from the film repertoire (18 June 2025)
• Critical listening test based on recordings (18 June 2025)
• Interviews in French with the jury (candidateswill be able to perform an instrumental piece of their choice and will have to answer specific questions about their personal project sent with their application form). (19 and 20 June 2025)

COEFFICIENTS OF THE ENTRANCE EXAMINATIONS FOR THE MUSIC-SOUND-IMAGE HIGHER EDUCATION COURSE:

N.B. : Candidates admitted to the competitive entrance examination for the 1st cycle who are not nationals of French-speaking countries must present, before 30 June preceding their first enrolment at the Conservatoire, a certificate issued by a body approved by the French government attesting to a level of French at least equal to B1 on the Council of Europe's scale of common reference levels, before 10 December following their first enrolment at the Conservatoire, a certificate issued by a body recognised by the French government attesting to a level of French at least equal to B2 on the Council of Europe's scale of common reference levels.