Complementary chamber music A

Chamber music sessions

The department organises two chamber music sessions a year, one in the autumn term and the other in the spring term, according to the following timetable:

No student may take more than two modules per semester.

In all modules, each student may not take part in more than two duets (except for percussion, double bass and harp: one duet).

This discipline is divided into four teaching modules, each lasting one semester:

• Module A: Compulsory Formation
• Module B: Contemporary writing programme
• Modules C and D: Free formation

Module A: Compulsory Formation

This module can only be validated by groups of at least four musicians, with the following specificities for the instrumentalists concerned:

• horn players: a brass quintet or a wind quintet ;
• trumpeters: a brass quintet;
• trombonists, saxhornists, tubists: a brass quintet or a quartet of trombones and/or saxhorns and/or tubas;
• woodwinds (excluding saxophone): a wind quintet ;
• saxophonists: a saxophone quartet;
• strings (except double bass): a string quartet;
• piano, accompaniment, accordion, ondes Martenot, percussion: a group of at least four musicians.

During the examination, the programme must last 15 minutes.

Compulsory for all students in the^1st cycle of the classical and contemporary instrumental disciplines department (except Organ-interpretation, Organ improvisation, Piano improvisation, Choreographic accompaniment), from the ^1st year.

Assessment

Before each examination session, each teacher confirms to the Registrar the list of groups that he or she will be presenting at the session and gives an assessment of their attendance and work.

An internal jury validates or rejects the group's performance and awards an AB, B, TB, TB unanimously and TB unanimously with congratulations for the corresponding module.

Oral presentation

Students will give a short oral presentation (maximum duration three minutes), in one or more voices, focusing mainly on the reasons for their choice of repertoire for this round; for example, the formation, style, writing techniques, originality of the work, etc. They will base their presentation on a written report, which will be presented to the class. They will use a personal argument based on the score, choosing an angle or aspect of the work on which they wish to focus in particular.

Teachers of music analysis, introduction to music history, research methodology or French can help prepare this presentation.

Validation on video

Students in the final year of the^1st cycle have the opportunity to validate one and only one module from modules A, C and D by video during the spring semester.

They submit their videos according to the procedures and timetable set by the department (generally around March).

The video must be approximately 15 minutes long and the performance must have been recorded during the school year in a concert situation.

The department has the right to refuse videos whose format is not compatible with the department's tools and/or whose quality it deems insufficient for assessment purposes. The student must be visible and recognisable on the video. The group may include people from outside the Conservatoire.

An internal jury validates or rejects the group's performance and awards an AB, B, TB, TB unanimously and TB unanimously with congratulations for the corresponding module, according to the same criteria as the face-to-face validation.

Complementary chamber music certificate

To obtain the certificate, each student must pass all the modules corresponding to his or her course of study:

Between 2 and 6 semesters

Until the attestation is obtained in full, students must enrol for at least one semester per year.

Students who have not obtained the attestation by the start of their final year of study in the cycle must enrol for the autumn semester.