The Royaumont Campus

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 byeminent career artists and pedagogues. In all, some one hundred young people will be brought together each summer.

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.

At the end of the Campus, the Royaumont Foundation Laureates are then supported in launching their careers through a series of meetings at the Bibliothèque La Grange- Fleuret : meetings with personalities from the music and choreography sectors (artists, opera directors, CCN directors, artists’ agents). Springboard auditions ” will be organized to introduce prizewinning musicians to ensembles, orchestras, choirs and casting directors.

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.

July 13 > July 31, 2026

Lied and Melody

• By Barbara Hannigan and Bertrand Chamayou; Bernarda Fink and Susan Manoff; Simon Lepper and Stéphane Degout
• For 5 piano / vocal duets

July 13 > August, 2026

The choreographic laboratory #5

• By Irène Filiberti, Laurent Pichaud, Frédéric Cellé, Frédéric Seguette, Vincent Lahache, Caroline Grosjean, Pauline Chevalier, Volmir Cordeiro,
• For 16 choreographers or performance artists

July 13 > August 1, 2026

Scenic unit: Coronation of Poppea

• By Moshe Leiser and Patric Caurier
• For 10 artists

14 >July 31, 2026

Gregorian chant at the Ecole de Notre-Dame

• By Sylvain Dieudonné
• For 10 singers and instrumentalists

August 14 > 28, 2026

Voix Nouvelles : coming to terms with your roots

• By Zad Moultaka, Farnaz Modarresifar, Zad Moultaka, Farnaz Modarresifar, International Contemporary Ensemble, Marisol Montalvo, Naoko Kikuchi, Vimbayi Kaziboni
• For 10 composers

August 17 > 30, 2026

Transcultural Music
New Orleans: the song of roots

• By Anne Paceo and Big Chief Juan Pardo
• For 2 singers, 7 instrumentalists and/or composers