EXTRA CURRICULUM AND SUMMER COURSES
All-instrument workshop with Bernard Vidal
New for 2024 – Bernard Vidal, co-founder of IMEP – Paris College of Music, and former teacher at the school, and IMEP • Paris College of Music are organizing an intensive, immersive music camp during the spring vacation. The trainees will stay on an estate in the heart of the Occitanie region near Narbonne.
Dates and times: Sunday, April 14 to Sunday, April 21. Accommodation and meals are included. You are responsible for your own travel to and from the course. A shuttle can pick you up at Narbonne station.
Intended for: musicians of all levels. Places are limited to a maximum of 12 trainees. Groups are divided according to level and type of instrument.
Goals: provide the trainee with a professional approach to ensemble preparation of a repertoire with a view to concerts, tours and recordings, and help the trainee in his/her personal development on the instrument (sound, technique, ear), on his/her role in the group, on his/her listening skills and ability to interact coherently with the music.
Program and organization: the course will focus on developing a repertoire for the live stage and recording studio.
Full program (link)
Price: 720 euros for 1 full week. A preferential rate of 620 euros is offered to IMEP students.
Registration: to ensure consistency of level in groups and instruments, please send an e-mail to info@imep.pro with a video recording of yourself playing jazz standards and themes.
I was able to take part in a free jazz workshop with Bernard, and the setting and welcome were really conducive to the development of new musical horizons. The week-long project was clear and well structured, with specific workshops, repertoire development and musical research, so that at the end of the week I could perform the prepared program in concert. The opportunity to jam every night and exchange experiences throughout the week was invaluable and enriching. The atmosphere was great and I have excellent memories of the music, sharing and freedom. It was a bit of an artistic laboratory in its own right. Thank you Bernard !Vincent Lanvier, guitarist, class of 2018 Fred Wesley
PERSONAL STATEMENTS
When you’re learning a new language (in this case jazz for me at the time), it is a bit “head down and pedal”, and the year flies by. The three courses I was able to do (far from Paris) with Bernard Vidal enabled me to put into practice and deepen in a serene way all the knowledge I had absorbed during the year at IMEP. Bernard Vidal is an outstanding teacher who has enabled me to develop my artistic skills while making me self-reliant and confident.
I participated in several of Bernard Vidal’s workshops. These camps offer total and continuous immersion in the work and pleasure of music. As far as I know, these are the only camps that offer intense, in-depth ensemble work, authentic public concerts, nightly jams and a convivial, shared life in a small group. Each workshop is different from the others, but the experience has always been good. Work and fun on the road. I recommend it.
Paul Oxby, double bassist, class of 2019 Yaron Herman
At the end of my first year at IMEP, I took a week’s internship with Bernard. Hours of group work with highly targeted feedback, demanding technical exercises tailored to my needs, frenzied jam sessions where I could immediately apply the day’s progress points in real-life conditions, and a final concert in front of an audience. This workshop was a major gas pedal for my sense of group, musicality and interpretation. Bernard combines technical and human coaching with psychology. I owe him a lot today as a musician.
Augustin Ledieu, singer, class of 2017 Alain Jean Marie