In addition to their studies, instrumentalists can take an introduction to the fortepiano, providing a stylistic and technical complement to their main discipline.

The course is devoted to the study of historical piano playing on original and facsimile instruments: German, Viennese and French pianofortes (1770-1900) and an introduction to the clavichord. It combines practice in musical performance and specific techniques with research into the repertoires and interpretation of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, as well as the creation of new repertoires. Students are made aware of the professional context through off-site projects, visits to collections of pianofortes, restorers' workshops and museums. They also take part in cross-disciplinary projects with other classes (composition classes, instrumental disciplines, FSMS, etc.).

At the crossroads between music training, chamber music, instrumental and orchestral classes, the sight-reading class gives instrumentalists the essential solfeggio, musical and instrumental reflexes they need when faced with a new score. Once they have grasped the musical theme, they are in a position to give their own interpretation. This apprenticeship also forms the basis of collective playing, through ensemble sight-reading, which requires attentive listening to one's partners. Whether individual or collective, the course emphasises the concepts that are essential to all instrumental playing: intonation, rhythmic precision, nuances, flexibility of tone and the ability to construct a coherent musical phrase from reading.

Consisting of individual or paired mixing lessons, and exercises based on productions, this course aims to acquire the method and confidence to carry out a post-production and mixing project, in keeping with the aesthetic of the recorded repertoire. At the end of this course, the musician-engineers will be able to prepare and manage a work session with musicians and to prioritise the artistic and technical issues, using different technologies.

The two-year natural trumpet syllabus is designed to broaden the horizons of future orchestral trumpeters, who will be required to play 'historical' instruments as they progress with certain conductors. In the first year, the student is introduced to a natural instrument with no system (valves, slides, keys, holes, etc.) and acquires a degree of autonomy in the classical and pre-romantic orchestral repertoire on copies of a nineteenth-century French instrument quite similar to the present-day trumpet. In the second year, the aim is to deepen mastery of this type of instrument and to incorporate stylistic elements specific to the Baroque repertoire into his playing, by tackling pieces by composers of the period on copies of 18th-century German trumpets that are slightly further removed from our current standards.