Les Éditions du Conservatoire

The Editions du Conservatoire offers the public privileged access to the wide range of research carried out by the Conservatoire's teachers and students, promoting the invention of innovative forms of writing capable of rendering intelligible and sensitive the reflections of musicians and dancers on their performance and creative practices.

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The catalog is structured around two collections:

DIALOGUE: Each volume of interviews reveals the mysteries of musical or choreographic transmission, through a conversation with an artist whose career is closely linked to the Paris Conservatory, through the richness of his teaching and his involvement in contemporary creation. The dialogue allows us to put into words the unspeakable gesture and artistic intuition, to better understand what is at stake between the performer and the audience, but also the students they train and the creators they meet.

Already published:
Alain Damiens.Lire, entendre, transmettre.Dialogue avec Anne Roubet (2019)
Claude Delangle. The ways of the saxophone. Dialogue with Lucie Kayas (2023)

Forthcoming (2024):
Alexis Galpérine.The violin, memory and history. Dialogue with Nicolas Galpérine

Two special issues available:
Et exspecto. Festival Messiaen au pays de la Meije.Twenty years of utopia (R. Blin)
Towards the light.Regards sur le Conservatoire de Paris (C. de Portzamparc / F. Ferranti)
 

TRANSMISSIONS : This collection brings together, in various forms (essays, courses, manuals, methods, etc.), teaching and research documents produced at the Paris Conservatoire. Over and above the institution's historical "official methods", it bears witness to the pedagogical freedom and singularity of thought of the authors, constituting a particularly rich sum on teaching and intellectual life at the Conservatoire.
Previously published: La musique parle, la musique peint (Christian Accaoui)

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To promote some of its students' recordings, the Conservatoire de Paris has also created its own record label, INITIALE