La Scola di Musica in Pigna is a music school that welcomes young and old during weekly or occasional workshops on Corsican traditional and classical vocals and instruments. Throughout the year, workshops and master classes are organized with professional singers and musicians from the island or elsewhere, leading to meetings with the audience.
To better introduce themselves to the public, an “open house” day was recently organized followed by a tour of the new music rooms in the presence of the coaches.
It was also an opportunity to present the updates for this year 2021:
CNCM Voce will open the doors of its music laboratory, ScoLab, offering a 3-year course based on the principles and methods of musical composition, from composition to interpretation, with encounter and exchange as fundamentals. ScoLab aims to prepare for careers as a musician, music creator or music teacher.
In this New Year, the Scola di Musica is represented by unique proposals unique to Balagne such as the education of cetera and pirula. Some of the historic coaches from VOCE, who also hosted during the popular FESTIVOCE, were in attendance to introduce the audience, including Nelson Gotteland who will teach rhythm lessons in rotation with Thomas Moscardini. Also in attendance were Jeremy Loehr, Ugo Casalonga, Nicole Casalonga, Tony Casalonga and Jerome Casalonga. In Scola Update this year: MAO (Computer Aided Music) training workshops by artist Bastia Olivier Bertholet. This new proposal has been met with apparent frenzy among many teens and adults. VOCE will soon host an awareness session on MAO.
Summary of Scola Courses and Instructors:
- Bimonthly organ and piano lessons.
Organ practice “Outside the Walls” is taught to Palani members. The instrument is taught by Vivian Loriot Damiani and Elise Lancerotto. Piano composed by Bruno Del Piero and Vivien Loriot Damiani.
Ugo Casalonga teaches twice a month on Saturday mornings in the new music rooms.
- Fiatty Slots: Pirula / Cialamella / Pivana
Teaching is provided by Tony Casalunga. Introduction and improvement of the practice of traditional wind instruments: PIRULA (reed oboe). Befana (goat horn flute), sialamella (small clarinet). Machine detection, fingertip, expression, breathing, interpretation, ammo and tablator notation.
One week individually or in groups. Classes are held on Wednesdays in the New Music Rooms.
Education is provided alternately by François-Philippe Barbulusi, Jerome Casalonga and Claude Bellagamba.
Learn the traditional secular and sacred repertoire. Stereoscopic exercise. For adults and teens.
Teaching takes place by Nicole Casalonga at Pigna Church on Saturday mornings. With Nicole Casalonga.
It is, first of all, the pleasure of singing together in one, two or more voices. Using imitation as a teaching tool, Nando Acquaviva invented it. The workshop presents an exploration of the traditional repertoire from monophonic to polyphonic, from nanny to paghjelle and from profane to sacred. Particular attention is paid to language and expression, as well as to musical and standard approaches, stresses, phrasing, and ornaments.
Teaching is provided by Babeth Bottalico every Wednesday afternoon at Casa Musicale. For children and teens.
Transfer the taste of traditional Corsican singing to young singers. Learning will be done orally. Start the tradition of Corsican monophonic and polyphonic singing, knowing your own voice and the voice of the other!
“It conveys our song and our traditions, so that our singers have that passion and will be able to transmit it.”
Teaching is provided by Nelson Gotland every two months on Thursday evenings in the New Music Rooms. Group class for children and teenagers. Teaching is supplemented by training programs offered by Thomas Muscardini.
Jeremy Loehr teaches biweekly on Wednesday evenings in the music rooms.
The workshop is led by Olivier Berthollet every two months on Wednesday afternoons. The MAO (Computer Aided Music) workshop will allow you to develop a different approach to music by engaging with new repertoires and new styles.
The goal is to encourage students to create, compose, record, arrange, edit… In short, to participate in the creation of a musical work, from its beginnings to its final realization.
The goal of this MAO workshop is to allow students to take control of a computer instrument by creating bridges between instrumental music and new technologies.
With a particularly open field of application (audio or instrumental recording, production of sounds from digital musical instruments, processing of drum instruments, mixing, creation of samples (extracts from an audio clip used in musical dressing), this workshop will have the potential to be part of a dynamic transversal practices, Particularly with the different machinery disciplines that are taught within CNCM.
Gilbert Gisole
