Artistic modules

Professors

  • Felix Renggli
  • Michel Bellavance

Professor

  • Serge Saitta

Chamber music – all instruments – existing ensembles or created during the academy

Professors

  • Margherita Pupulin (early music)
  • Luis Rigou (all styles)
  • Yves Charpentier (all styles)

Masterclasses

During the chamber music masterclasses, we will work on the repertoire brought by the students or proposed by the professors. The work will be centered on the analysis and focus on solutions to create a coherent groupe interpretation, as well as on the dynamics of the mutual listening.

Professors

  • Eléonore Dupraz, stage director
  • Ensemble Caravelle:
    • Maud Besnard, flute
    • Mathilde Arnaud, flute
    • Lucas Duclaux-Loras, percussions
    • Mathurin Bouny, alto

Workshop and performance

To play one’s instrument freely and by occupying fully the stage is what the Ensemble Caravelle will work on during it’s collective workshop. Mixing music, theater, improvisaiton, this workshop will be a experimental lab, with the aim to create a unique show that will be given during the fall festival.

Coached by the musicians of the Ensemble Caravelle, specialised in collective creation, and by their stage director Eléonore Dupraz, the participants will have the opportunity to develop their artistic talents and discover new forms of scenic expression that will enrich their musical backgroungs. Based on individual proposals, individual repertoires, and theatrical exercises and improvisation, the show will take form progressively during the academical week.

This collective adventure will allow to students to develop their creativity and artistical sensitivity. The ultimate goal will be a presentation during the fall edition of La Côte Flûte Festival, on stage!

Workshop to understand and develop augmented instruments. A concert will be given during the fall festival, fruit of the work and discoveries of the workshop.

Professors

  • Les Chemins de Traverse:
    • Barbara Minder, flutes
    • Matthieu Amiguet, flutes et computing

Atelier

Augmented instruments

An augmented instrument is a traditional instrument, such as a flute or a violin, which sound capacities are extended by an informatic treatment in real time. This allows to open to new sonorities created by electronics, while keeping the finesse of the control of acoustic instruments.

During this workshop, we will explore groupe improvisation and collective composition with augmented instruments. Each participant has to come with its own instrument. The augmentation material will be provided during the workshop. For those who wish it there will be the possibility to play on basse and contrabasse augmented flutes.

One important issue of the augmentation is that it opens to new possibilities for the interpret rather than lock him into a too strict environment. To do so, we will work particularly on interactions between interprets to make sure to keep one’s ears open permanently.

By preparing a performance for the fall festival, we will pay a close attention to the architecture and coherence of the musical language, as to allow to augmentation to enlarge the possibilities rather than to constrain them.

From a stylistic point of view, the approach will be very open. From early music to contemporary, or traditional, all backgrounds are welcome and from an interbreeding of individual style, a unique and fascinating performance will be created!

On this path, we will also explore what augmented playing can bring to a more calssical way of playing. This workshop will benefit to musicians that are interested in started augmentation, but also to those who just wish to discover this world on a ponctual basis.

Open to all instruments. The programme will be adapted to the musicians and instruments registered to the academy. The orchestra will give a concert during the fall festival

Professeur

  • Luis Rigou

Course for flutists with a rehearsal pianist. Benefit from the wide musical culture of the invited pianist; learn to change how you look on your repertoire as a flutist into a complete musician’s look.

Professor

  • Renaud Moutier

Course

Beyond technique, what sense should we give to the text? What place should we give to the work into the aesthetic of an era? We will work your repertoire with piano with the perspective of chamber music, of equilibrium and shared dinamics.

Professor:

  • Margherita Pupulin

Workshop

The workshops of improvisation on an ostinato basse will take place in a groupe. We will work on the most well known basses of the baroque era (Chaconne, passacaglia, bergamasca…) and will developp our intutive capabilities of improvisation as well as on efficient “models”.

Enlarge your expressive spectrum beyond music. This workshop will give y “verbal” look on the music you interpret.

Professor:

  • Margherita Pupulin

Workshop

During the theater workshop, each student will be invited to bring a poem and a piece of music (from any era or style). We will work on declamation, rhetorics, silences, movement in space, and will create spontaneous performances by combining the music and poems brought by the participants.

60 minutes theory course

The course about prevention will articulate around a presentation of the different disorders that can appear in a musician’s life, and on the means to put in place to prevent them.

3 practical workshops

The workshop “musician’s prevention” will allow to give tools to musicians for their warm-up, recuperating, and muscular strenghtening to put in place to become performant and in a good health as long as possible with one’s instrument.

Professor

  • Manon Grégis

Dreaming, reflecting, and designing a career project as an interpreter. Being a musician and shaping one’s path, expressing and acknowledging one’s desires in the face of conformity within the industry and the demands of existence entails something other than an all-or-nothing approach: being Mozart or nothing at all…

Authentic artistic journeys are built on pure passion that defies the questions of appearance and representation. Fulfilling artistic paths are those where desires, ideals, energies, and personal resources find balance within a constantly evolving musical, cultural, and educational landscape.

The connection between heart, reason, and audacity is forged through exchanges with Yves Charpentier, with the simple objective of opening up paths of possibilities and glimpsing concrete solutions to implement one’s artistic life project.

With Yves Charpentier, flutist, founder of the quintet Le Concert impromptu, 1st Prize in virtuosity from the HEM of Geneva, Former student of the Institute of Political Studies in Lyon.

Agility: (Re) Discovering the joy of play in individual work and striving for growth and progress with one’s instrument.

Once the notions of endurance, power, and flexibility inherent in flute practice are understood and grasped, the idea is to invite creativity, whimsy, and agility into the heart of daily practice. The objective is to (re) find the pleasure of playing and observe the benefits of an anti-mechanical, light, and inventive approach: one that is more intense and effective. Here are a few paths to explore based on individual realities:

  • Diversify the approach to each practice session.
  • Communicate to oneself what is being worked on and why, always in a musical manner, with intention.
  • Invent “tailor-made” exercises, systematically vary them, and enrich them through a mix of speeds, articulations, dynamics, ornaments, etc.
  • Engage in mental and physical correspondences with the voice, the bow, the ball, skiing, and more.

And welcome each time to the joy of play and a renewed vision/hearing!