Campus Royaumont | Training courses for artists near Paris

Since 2025, the Royaumont Foundation’s professional training courses for artists have been given a new impetus. They are now organized in two 3-week sessions, in July and August, whereas the previous training program was spread out throughout the year. The aim is to encourage encounters, artistic cross-fertilization and exchanges with the public.

Le Campus: a new professional training program

Over the past forty years, Royaumont abbey has become an essential professional training center for young generations of artists, who come to learn from the greatest masters.

Today, professional training takes the form of the “Campus Royaumont”, aimed at emerging artists in the fields of contemporary dance, vocal music from the Middle Ages to the present day, contemporary musical creation and transcultural music.
Music training programs draw on the holdings of the Royaumont libraries. Trainees are also introduced to library research. The Royaumont Foundation’s range of instruments is also showcased, including harpsichords, organs and pianos.

This summer program focuses on the long term, with two three-week sessions, one in July, the other in August.
During each session, 2 to 3 courses are held in parallel, around specific themes adapted to each discipline and repertoire. They will be supervised by eminent career artists and pedagogues. In all, some one hundred young people will be brought together each summer.

Artist training at Royaumont Abbey in Paris

One of the special features of the Campus is a common time for all trainees, with the aim of encouraging interdisciplinary exchanges and reflections linked to the human sciences. Artists are free to take part in musical and/or choreographic improvisation sessions, as well as workshop-debates on a variety of subjects such as art, performance and the place of the artist in society. In order to offer concrete experience of mediation in the field, the artists can also participate in several preparatory sessions and educational interventions aimed at audiences who don’t go on vacation (hospitals, EHPAD, social centers, etc.). During the sessions, public performances take place at the abbey, giving participants the opportunity to present the fruits of their labor.

Some of the prizewinners will be programmed as part of the Royaumont Season at the Abbey or at the Grange-Fleuret Music Library. They will also be invited to apply for a tailor-made residency program, enabling them to prepare competition or recital programs, work on research projects in libraries, and produce audio and video recordings.