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Teaching focuses on

• training in specific accompaniment techniques, acquisition of the basic vocal and instrumental repertoire.
• developing the ability to enter professional life.
• sight-reading (alone or with partners).
• knowledge and progressive acquisition of the vocal and instrumental repertoire.
• Practice in transposition, continuo, choral and orchestral reduction.
• work with instrumentalists and singers.

Year ¹ exam

1. sight-reading of an instrumental accompaniment, followed by fine-tuning (preceded by a 10-minute practice session with the piano) ;
2. transposition of a work with singing to a higher or lower key (preceded by a 10-minute practice session with the piano).

Year² exam

1. deciphering for solo piano and continuo (20-minute practice session with piano) ;
2. choral reading in modern or historical vocal clefs (short preparation in front of the jury) ;
3. accompaniment of an instrumental work (chamber music or concerto) assigned three days before, chosen from a list of works determined at the beginning of the year. In the case of an orchestral reduction, the student will propose a personal reduction.

^1st cycle final exam

Non-public part:

1. a reading of a string quartet, string quintet and/or with a transposing instrument ;
2. a deciphering of an instrumental accompaniment followed by fine-tuning.
3. a reading of parts from transposing instruments (short preparation without piano in front of the jury).

Rounds 1 and 2 are followed by a 20-minute practice session with the piano.

Public part:

1. a deciphering for solo piano ;
2. a transposition of a work with singing up to the upper or lower major third.
3. a free recital lasting approximately 25 minutes:
   • performance of a work or excerpt from a symphonic work of the student's choice, worked on during the year and played on the orchestral conductor;
   • accompaniment of a vocal work (or excerpt).

Rounds 1 and 2 are followed by a joint 20-minute practice session with the piano.

The^1st cycle Superior Accompaniment certificate is awarded to students who pass the final exam of the^1st cycle Superior.

The certificate grade is that awarded by the jury at the end of the final examination of the^1st cycle.

Throughout the course