Pianoforte - 1er Cycle
Information
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Name
Pianoforte
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Cycle
1st Cycle
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Course's number of years
3 years
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Maximum duration
3 years
Students in the first and second years of the1st cycle who feel that they can complete the DNSPM at the end of the current academic year may sit the DNSPM final exam at the end of the first or second year instead of the final exam; if they fail the exam and/or are unable to validate all the disciplines attached to the DNSPM, they must continue their studies in the next year of the1st cycle and sit the DNSPM final exam again.
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ECTS
180
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Delivered diploma
National Higher Professional Diploma for Musicians (DNSPM)
The distinction (Très bien, Bien or Assez bien) qualifying the DNSPM is that awarded by the jury at the end of the DNSPM final examination.
The DNSPM in Pianoforte is also awarded to students who did not obtain a distinction in the DNSPM final examination but whose results in the first and second year examinations so permit, in accordance with the procedures described in Title I - article 5 of the study regulations.
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Course objectives and content
Advanced training for instrumentalists :
- development of artistic sensitivity and individual and collective technical mastery ;
- broad cultural training in both practical and theoretical fields (complementary disciplines);
- awareness of the professional context.
The Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) de pianoforte is awarded to students who have obtained all of the following awards
The 1st cycle advanced certificate in pianoforte
123 A certificate or attestation in each of the following compulsory complementary disciplines:
-Chamber music
6
- Ensemble activity (orchestra)
6
- Treatise study A
2
- Musical training
8
- Musical analysis
8
- History of music (introduction)
2
- Sight-reading
8
- Chords and temperaments (excluding harpsichord and fortepiano)
3
- basso continuo (keyboards)
2
- Modern language (or French as a foreign language)
3 - Practical aspects of the profession 1 and 2
1
- Professional situations
4
A certificate or attestation in an optional complementary discipline 4
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French language certificate
B1
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Bachelor's degree
A partnership between the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris and Sorbonne-Université enables Conservatoire students who so wish, and who are admitted to the 1st cycle, to obtain, together with the Conservatoire's 1st cycle diploma, and subject to fulfilling the conditions for enrolment at the university, the Bachelor degree of Music and Musicology from Sorbonne-Université, including the Diplôme National Supérieur Professionnel de Musicien (DNSPM) from the CNSMDP, and validation at the university of four 26-hour courses, spread over four semesters, chosen from the "Domaines musicologiques" teaching units.
Students are free to choose at which stage of their studies at the Conservatoire (1st or 2nd cycle) they wish to begin this university course.
Registration and payment of university fees are required to follow the courses. -
Number of complementary disciplines to validate
1
Disciplines
Entrance exam
Pianoforte (1st cycle)
Opening date for registration : 10 October 2024
Closing date for registration : 15 November 2024
Exam closed in 2025
Eligibility:
- a compulsory work on the Lengerer* pianoforte (7-8 minutes), posted on 10 December 2024
- one or more works of your choice on the Lengerer fortepiano* (10 minutes)
- a sight-reading.
Admission:
- one compulsory work on the Graf* pianoforte (7-8 minutes), to be posted on 10 January 2025
- a set of works or excerpts from works chosen by the jury from a 30-minute programme, including one or more works of your choice on the Lengerer* and/or Graf* pianoforte.
fortepianos available for the competition:
- Lengerer (1793, copy by C.Clarke: 5 octaves, mute & forte knee)
- Graf (1826, copy of C.Clarke: 6 and a half octaves, bassoon, una corda, moderator, forte registers)
N.B.: Candidates who are successful in the competition for entry to the1st 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 an organisation 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.
Maximum age : 28