The enigmatic term TEP (Travail d'étude personnel - Personal Study Work) embodies the object that formalises the approach and practice of research by all students on the Master'^s degree courses and the joint Diplôme d'Etat (DE)/Diplôme national supérieur professionnel de musicien (DNSPM) course for vocal, instrumental, early music, jazz, writing, composition and conducting disciplines. This is an achievement that can take a variety of forms, always including at least one written component.

In the^1st and^2nd cycle music courses, work experience is used to highlight activities of all kinds in the field of the main discipline, carried out outside the establishment under professional conditions.

Born of FM Alexander's discovery of the need to return to the "use of self", lost since childhood and which needs to be rediscovered, the Alexander Technique invites performers to question "what they are doing with themselves". Becoming aware of the way in which the body, as the very first instrument, should function, and putting it back at the heart of the artistic gesture, is the whole point of this approach, which mobilises observation and practice.

The fruit of unique expertise, nurtured by long experience working with a host of artists around the world, this teaching constitutes a psycho-physical preparation for performance or the stage. In line with the sports training model, relaxation, recuperation, appropriate mobilisation and deployment of capacities at the M moment help to prevent and offer solutions to the problems of injury, excessive tension and stage fright so often associated with high-level instrumental playing. In addition to the effects on overall health, this approach provides the keys to self-knowledge and self-imposed limits, which are essential to artistic development and professional careers.

In addition to their studies, instrumentalists are given an introduction to the Baroque cello, which complements their main discipline in terms of style and technique.