Composition workshop

with Patrick Brugalières

Dates :  December 1-5 2025

Training Focus Areas:
Fundamentals of Musical Writing:
rhythms, melodies, variations, harmonizations

Approaches to Composition:

instrumental, songwriting, scoring for image

Arranging and Orchestration: sound textures, instrumental combinations, orchestration techniques

Sound Creation and Synthesis: sound palettes …

Editing and Formalization: software and score editing

The Professional Framework of the Composer

Trainer:
Patrick Brugalières is a famous accordion player / accompanist of Famous French singers (Lio, Sardou, Gréco). He composes film scores for blockbuster films such as  Astérix and is a Bordeaux University professor for computer assisted music.

Participants and et pre-requisite:
All instruments level. Average level in harmony.

Schedule: 30 hours, from lundi 1:30 pm to Friday 3:45 pm

Costs
Teaching fees 420 € /week (+30 € for day students)

Teaching + full board lodging fees starting at 645 €/week

Singing workshop

with Alexia Mornet MORNET

Dates :  Feb 16 - 20 février 2026

Content:  Improve your vocal skills, by developing your technique. Add more flexibility, nuances and sensibility in your singing. Work on your stage presence and the handling of a microphone. Sing in a group and learn how to listen to one another and harmonize. 

Trainer:  Alexia Mornet was born in a family of musicians and has been singing since the age of 8. She got selected for the Voice in 2020 . Her voice is featured in a Ibis Hotel add campaign. She peforms extensively in Provence as a duo with guitar player Sam Tallet.

Participants :  All ages, all levels

Schedule:  25 hours, from Monday 2:00pm to Friday evening (after the end of the workshop concert). Welcome meeting 1:30pm

Costs :
Teaching fee 340 € /week (+30 € for those living outside of the school)

Teaching fee + full-board lodging fee  
starting at 605 €/week

Jazz Horns and Woods workshop

with Jean-Jacques Taib

Feb 23-27 2026

Contenu :  Learn the language of jazz by studying jazz standards, blues and chord sequences. Practice improvisation alone or with a band.

Formateur :  Jean-Jacques TAIB is a clarinet / flute / sax player member of the Jazz Academy. Passionate about swing and blues, he has played with Pepper Adam, Sony Stitt, Ttommy Flanagan ... and participated in the major Jazz festivals of Montreux, Marciac, Tel Aviv ...

Participants:   All ages, all levels

Prerequisite:  Some notions and practice of basic harmony

Schedule: 35 hours, from Monday 2pm till Friday 12:30pm 

Welcome meeting 1:30pm

The full training program will be provided upon request.

Fees B
Teaching fees 420 € /week (+30 € pour externes)

Teaching fees + full board lodging
starting at 645 €/semaine

New! French lyricist PRO workshop

with Frédéric Kocourek

AFDAS and SACEM workshop

100  % scholarships are available 

Dates : du 25 au 29 mai 2026

Trainer : Frédéric Kocourek is a French lyricist since 1997, He has written for roughly 30 French singers including Angélique Kidjo, Natasha St Pier, Isabelle Boulay, Rock Voisine, Sarah Brightman, Daguerre, Yannick Noah, Louis Bertignac ... He has taught among others, at Francis Cabrel's Rencontres d'Astaffort. He is very involved in continuous training with Sacem, l'Afdas et the Union Nationale des Auteurs et Compositeurs.

Content : Perfect your work as a song lyricist. Work on inspiration, structure, style, rhythms, rimes, story telling ... Are the requirements for songwriting a source of constraint or liberation?

Audience : Auteurs, compositeurs, interprètes des musiques actuelles, auteur-interprète, auteur-compositeur, compositeur-interprète

Déroulé : French speaking authors, composers, singers, songwriters ...

The full program can be sent out upon request.

Fees : 
Teaching fees 1855 € /week (+30 € for students living outside school)

Teaching + full board lodging fees  
starting at 2110 €/week

Financements à 100% possibles:

AFDAS

Le stage étant référencé à l'AFDAS, vous pouvez benéficiez de:

L'AFDAS auteur, peu connu, est disponible pour les auteurs ayant gagné un certain montant de droits d'auteur sur les trois ou les cinq dernières années. Voir conditions

L'AFDAS intermittent est disponible pour tous les intermittents du spectacle. Voir conditions

Singing workshop
with Mylène Mornet

from July 13th to 18th 2026

Trainer:  Student at the CNSM in Paris, Mylène Mornet obtained a first prize in singing, and then won numerous national (Alès, Béziers) and international (Voix d'Or, Marmande, Rennes) competitions. Her discography includes "La Périchole" and "Les Diamants de la Couronne" for Harmonia Mundi.

Content:  Perfecting vocal skills through technical work: vocal agility, nuances, sensitivity... Interpretation of an individual song on soundtrack. Stage work with professional training: posture, microphone management, ease... Group singing to develop the practice of polyphony, harmonization, listening to others and sharing... International variety and French song. 

Public: All levels, all ages

Schedule: 25 h, from Monday  2pm till Friday evening (after end of workshop concert). Welcome meeting 1:30pm

Fees A: 
Teaching fee 340 € /week 
(+30 € for those living outside of the school)

Teaching fee + full-board lodging fee   
starting at 605 €/week