Program Costs (2007)

 The Académie offers both college credit and non-credit options.

 College Credit (2 units)                Non-Credit

 Tuition:                       $1630        Tuition:                         n/a

 Housing and                                 Housing and

 associated costs:      $  900        associated costs:     $  900

 Program fee:              $  670        Program fee:             $1000

 TOTAL:                      $3200        TOTAL:                    $1900
 
Text Box: Admission to the Académie The Vanderbilt Music Académie is open to woodwind, brass, percussion, and string musicians ages 19-24. Letters of application must be accompanied by a performer’s resume and DVD of a live, unedited recital performance of no less than 30 minutes. Send to: Vanderbilt Music Académie, Blair School of Music, 2400 Blakemore Ave., Nashville, TN 37212 Deadline for submission of materials is January 4, 2008.

 
 

     For more information about admissions, audition procedures, and tuition, contact  thomas.verrier@vanderbilt.edu

 
 

The Ensemble Experience:

An omni-ensemble approach is employed, based on the view that large ensembles are comprised of an array of smaller chamber groups (i.e., quartets, and quintets). The mission is to offer seamless continuity between conducted and non-conducted experiences as groupings of various combinations (drawn from the composite pool   of players) simultaneously prepare repertoire.  In addition to the larger mixed-ensemble experience, participants are coached by Festival d’Aix artists in smaller chamber groups (2 coachings per quartet/ quintet each week).  Resident artists also teach private lessons to participants (1 hour lesson each week), and provide performance masterclasses (each participant performs in a solo masterclass at  the end of each of week). 

 

 
 

The Residency:

Académie activities occur during the weeks of the Festival d’Aix and include a variety of masterclasses with open rehearsals and a concert performance at the end of each week.

 
 
Text Box: In 2007, the list of conductors and musicians in residence at the Festival included Simon Rattle. Pierre Boulez, Susanne Mälkki, the Berlin Philharmonic, the Mahler Chamber Orchestra, Ensemble Intercontemporain, and Les Musiciens du Louvre • Grenoble. Throughout the Vanderbilt Music Académie experience, students actively participate in the intellectual and artistic life unique to the Aix community. Our goal is to empower students to experience music from the inside out, nurturing the creativity and inspiration of each participant’s “inner artist” alongside the skill development of his/her “performer shell.” Our focus is on developing each of these roles, all the while strengthening the bond between them. Ultimately, we hope to deepen the connection between the musician and the music to more effectively complete the circuit from the composer to the audience. Text Box: Vanderbilt Music Académie is an interdisciplinary music and French program offered jointly by the Blair School of Music and the Vanderbilt-in-France Center in Aix-en-Provence. The Académie offers musicians unprecedented access to the artistic resources of the renowned Festival International d'Art Lyrique et de Musique and its Académie Européenne de la Musique—including private lessons, chamber music coachings, and masterclasses with the Festival’s resident musicians—culminating in an ensemble masterclass and performance with conductor Thomas Verrier as part of the official Festival d’Aix program.

  “We are fortunate

  to immerse our

  Académie in the

  richness of Aix-

  en-Provence,

  a city like no other.

  The home of

  Émile Zola, Paul

  Cézanne,  and

  Darius Milhaud

  offers an invigorating  and 

  creative climate  of openness

  and endless possibility.”

 

                 -Thomas Verrier, D.M.A.

                   Artistic Director 

 
 

The Structure:

The Vanderbilt-in-France Center in Aix-en-Provence hosts the Vanderbilt Music Académie along with other summer programs. Vanderbilt-in-France arranges the accommodations for all students in residence and coordinates meals with local French families in Aix. 

 
 

In addition to the musical experiences, participants are offered French classes, organized excursions and activities to explore the natural beauty of Provence, as well as an array of experiences that nurture their “inner artist,” such as French cooking lessons, wine tasting, and workshops in visual arts, drama, and dance.