Teaching Method
La méthode Jacques Mornet
Historical background
Born in Avignon, Jacques Mornet was originally a primary school teacher in the village of Le Thor (Vaucluse) but also part-time accordionist. Passionate about music, he created a music class within his school that became a huge success. The local administration decided to build a big county music school for him to run.
In 1995, he founded the CNIMA with his student alumna, Nathalie Boucheix, in Auvergne, Nathalie's homeland.
Over the years, Jacques Mornet and the CNIMA have gotten the best world prize list in accordion competitions (128 international first prizes at October 2021).
Professor Mornet is the General Secretary of the World Confederation of the Accordion (CMA), and part of the Jury for the greatest world competitions. He teaches workshops and master classes all over the world. He received the Silver Disc of the Gnessin Academy of Moscow and the Gus Viseur 2015 prize.
Teaching method
With his 60 years experience in playing and teaching accordion, Jacques MORNET has developed a one-of-a-kind teaching method.
Inspired by wind instruments, his method emphasizes the importance of the air column generated by the accordion bellows, the various music articulations produced by the right body balance and the search of musicality.
Piano, guitare, chant ...
The school now also teaches piano, keyboards, guitar, voice, following the same guidelines: search of musicality and personal expression as a priority, use of the body in the playing etc ...
It is Jacques Mornet teaching method on accordion that allowed his students dot get on of the best PRIZE LIST at international accordion contests and made CNIMA's worldwide reputation.
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CNIMA officially represents France at the
Confédération Internationale des Accordéonistes (CIA) that organizes yearly
Coupe Mondiale de l'Accordéon.
Jacques Mornet has named his first audiovisual accordion workbook the "[Non]-méthode " as, in opposite to standard accordion methods, the guideline is musicality rather then technics. Technics flow from the search of the right sound.
Jacques Mornet and Nathalie Boucheix have gathered around them a team of high profile professors which make the CNIMA a pilot accordion school in the world.
"La [Non]-méthode"
is great to start learning the accordion on the right foot or review your fundamentals. It can be used on digital and acoustic accordion, piano keyboard and buttons.
80 colour pages and 2 DVDs, i.e. more than 8 hours of videos in which Jacques Mornet explains each exercise. Find it in our boutique.
