Accordion training at CNIMA - Jacques Mornet

CNIMA offers you many accordion courses all year long.
To get informations about program, dates and modalities, use the left menu to reach description of the training of your choice.
You may benefit from helps in financing or grants from your country (as an abroad student), ask the competent ministry or department.

Possibility of attending courses as auditor before joining.

Accordion courses program

Two main working lines:

• Mastering techniques without ever neglecting music.
• The instrument apprenticeship allows above all to reveal one’s musical personality by releasing itself as fast as possible from technical constraints.

Our pedagogy is based on the concept of  balance between 3 fundamental points:

• Sound emission, control and listening. Compression and motion of the bellows.
• Variety of articulations and touch (height of attacks, different fingers pressures) that must allow musical relief (3 dimensions play).
• The importance of physical/body play, underlining and helping musical expression.

Only once these technical problems are resolved, the instrument becomes a real tool to serve music. So, after this more or less long basical work, the musician will not have anything to do that using his/her sensibility to serve music. He then should turn his work to the research of “smart play”.