Elementary and Professional Music Education

These are courses that are organized around the learning and practice of a musical instrument or voice (only in professional courses), offering complete musical training that prepares you for higher education or for the professional world.

Music teaching is organized around the study of an instrumental specialty.

Our elementary teachings They last for four years.

Our professional teachings They last for six years.

Clicking on the image you can consult the study plan indicative of professional music education:

In the Community of Madrid you can study the following specialties:

1. Elementary teachings
   Accordion, harp, clarinet, harpsichord, double bass, bassoon, flute, recorder, guitar, flamenco guitar, plucked string instruments, plectrums, oboe, percussion, piano, saxophone, trombone, horn, trumpet, tuba, viola , viola da gamba, violin, cello.
    
2. professional teachings
   The specialties of professional music education are all of the above and also: electric bass, flamenco singing, singing, dulzaina, electric guitar and organ.

In order to access Music lessons, it is necessary to pass a test that is carried out in the month of June. 

You can start elementary education at the age of eight, although you can also access it at the age of seven as long as you have a diagnosis of High Capacities made by an EOEP and it is authorized by the director of the center.

You can access any of the courses, both elementary education and professional education.

The exercises of the test will have as reference the contents of the subjects of the previous courses in the center where you take it, except for the first year of elementary education, which will be an aptitude test, and the first year of professional education.

The allocation of vacant places in professional conservatories is done as follows:

• Those who have passed the entrance test to the first year of elementary education You will be summoned to a personal interview at the center where you have passed the test, where you will be offered a specialty from the list of vacancies published for that academic year, following the order of scores obtained in the test. Minors must attend accompanied by their parents.
• Those who have passed the test for the rest of the courses You can consult the list of admitted students at the center where you have passed the test or through the Raíces platform.

If you have passed the entrance test but have not obtained a place, you will become part of a single waiting list ordered by score. In case there are vacancies in another conservatory, we will contact you.

Yes. Authorized centers provide the same teachings as a conservatory. The denomination is different due to the ownership of the center, conservatory when it is public, authorized center when it is private. 

In elementary education, the average number of weekly classes is 5 hours; in the professional ones it depends on the course and specialty, but the average is from 7 to 10 h.

The classes in the conservatories respect the schedules of the schools and institutes.

In addition, there is the integrated teaching model: music centers where primary and secondary education are taught:

• primary education and music: the Padre Antonio Soler Integrated Center in San Lorenzo de El Escorial;
• secondary education and music: Padre Antonio Soler Integrated Center and Federico Moreno Torroba Integrated Center in the district of Carabanchel, in Madrid. 

Only, lower limit in elementary education: 8 years, although exceptions can be considered. 

It is the essential step to opt for a place in a center, but, to be able to enroll in a conservatory or in an integrated center, you must be admitted. This depends on the offer of vacancies in the center and the place you occupy in the list of applicants who have passed the test.

They are centers where both general primary or secondary and baccalaureate education as well as elementary and professional music education are taught.

• Uninterrupted opening from 9:00 to 22:00.
• Comprehensive training: in addition to learning to play an instrument, you will acquire the necessary skills in musical language, harmony, music history, etc.
• In professional education you can choose in 5th and 6th for the different training profiles that are offered in the centers: instrument or voice, composition, early music or jazz.
• Individual instrument classes.
• Group practice with different groups: chamber music, orchestra, choir and band activities.
• Preparation for interpretation in public.
• Participation in concerts and collaboration with other institutions.
• Specific preparation for competitions and awards, including the Extraordinary Music and Dance Awards of the Community of Madrid.
• Courses with guest professors and exchanges with national and foreign centers.
• Instrument loan.
• Study booths.
• Professional, academic and pedagogical orientation.

As long as you have not exhausted the established years of permanence in the teachings, yes.

You have to apply for admission at the center where your file is, the last one where you were enrolled, or at another of your choice through a transfer request. Admission will depend on the vacancies that remain unoccupied after the process of allocating vacancies to newly admitted students. 

Yes. To access professional music education you must pass an entrance test with no more or no less requirements. 

The title of professional music education qualifies you to work in music schools.

You will be able to work in companies that require services for musical or training activities as long as you meet the company's hiring requirements.

No. The requirements to access higher music studies are age (normally 18) and degree (bachelor's degree). To access, you must pass an access test.

In case of being in possession of the professional title, the average obtained in professional music education can be valued if you think it will raise your access qualification. It will represent 30% of your access qualification. The remaining 70% will be the mark obtained in the test. 

Access to artistic music education is possible by passing the entrance exam exclusively.

Unregulated music studies will help you access a course other than 1st year of elementary education, provided you pass the corresponding entrance test. The course will depend on the level you have.

Yes, as long as the center where you study considers that your qualities and application will allow you to take advantage of the two specialties (instruments) and pass the entrance exam for each speciality.

The validity of the test is only for the course in which it is carried out. 

In addition to expenses for school supplies (stationery, sheet music, music books, etc.), transportation or clothing (for auditions and the orchestra, for example), the main expense is the purchase of the instrument, its maintenance and the rest of the material necessary for play it (bows, mouthpieces, reeds, rosin, case etc.). 

Conservatories have an instrument loan service that you can use, although soon you will want to own your own instrument.

The Ministry of Education, Culture and Sport annually announces scholarships of a general nature for students who are pursuing post-compulsory studies, among which are professional and higher artistic education. (Link to the ministry's student aid and scholarships page: http://www.mecd.gob.es/educacion-mecd/areas-educacion/estudiantes/portada.html)

Formally, from the age of 12, although the appropriate age depends on the stage of development of each person, and it is advisable to start singing studies when the voice has already “changed”.

No. They are language classes applied to singing, to learn the phonetics and the difficulties of projection and vocalization in each language and the corresponding lyrical repertoire.

You must take the test at the conservatory where that teacher teaches. Once you have passed the test and been admitted to the center, you must ask the center's management to be included among that teacher's students. They will attend to your request whenever possible.