Academy of Transcultural Music

August 11 to 23, 2025

Timeline

Submission period

Mon Dec 9 at 05AM UTC

End of submission period

Sun Jan 12, 2025 at 10PM UTC

Results date

Mon Jan 20, 2025 at 05PM UTC

Entry or Course Fee

650 €
The source of raï, popular song from Algeria

in partnership with the musée du quai Branly-Jacques Chirac

Since 2021, the Royaumont Foundation has joined forces with the musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac to develop an academy dedicated to transcultural music.

Each year, the Académie invites a master from a traditional culture and a “passer” who is an expert in the dialogue between tradition and creation. These two artists pass on their knowledge and experience to ten musicians, and/or improvisers, and/or singers, and/or composers, from all horizons, and invite them toexperiment with the process of collective transcultural creation.

The Académie is an invitation to work on improvisation and collective musical composition, based on orality and inspired by everyone’s contribution, whatever their instrumental or vocal practice.

It calls on musicians and singers with non-Western and Western knowledge in all its multiplicity, and on those who wish to explore musical languages far removed from their usual practice, to imagine and create new forms of expression together.

For this fourth edition, the Académie will be led by composer and violinist Théo Ceccaldi, one of the most singular voices on the European jazz scene, voted “French Musician of the Year” by Jazz Magazine in 2023 and “Revelation of the Year” at the Victoires du Jazz awards. He will be joined by songwriter and singer Sofiane Saïdi, from Sidi Bel Abbès, the cradle of Algerian raï.

Details are available at web pages:
https://www.royaumont.com/en/professional-training/academy-of-transcultural-music/