Pre-Academic

• Educational offer of pre-academic courses
• Rules and Regulations
• Learning objectives pre-academic courses
• Study Plans
• Certification exam programmes
• Indication of course attendance
• Admission Examinations and Registration
• Regulations

Educational offer of pre-academic courses

With the a.y. 2010-11, the “F.A. Bonporti” Conservatoire of Music in Trento establishes the order of the first-level academic courses, in accordance with the provisions of the reform law of the institutions of higher artistic musical and coreutical education, no. 508/99, and the connected Ministerial Regulations and Decrees.

The establishment of first-level academic courses, in orderly form, entails their replacement of the courses of the pre-existing system, which therefore take the form of discontinued courses.

The courses in the pre-existing system were configured as single-cycle courses, divided into internal periods according to a division into three (lower, middle and upper periods) or two (lower and upper periods). In the pre-existing system, the courses were determined in a unitary cycle of education, beginning with the lower period and ending with the academically inspired upper period of the courses.

The aforementioned reform of the Conservatoires’ academic studies assigns higher-order training to first-level academic courses and, following these, to second-level academic courses – with a specialised vocation – while also opening up the third level of academic training, represented by research training courses. The area of higher musical education also includes master’s, postgraduate and specialisation courses.

In view of the reform of academic studies, which entails the non-application of the previous regulations, it is necessary to structure a didactic offer, in the form of a specific regulation, for the pre-academic courses: an offer that constitutes a coherent premise, from a logical and formative point of view, with respect to the higher musical training. In these terms, the pre-academic level picks up the legacy of the courses of the previous system, offering continuity, in a strongly updated context, to a training tradition (whose validity is also recognised at an international level) that is characterised as much on the vocational level as on the professional one.

The organisation for pre-academic courses determines an educational offer, which is structured in internal levels of competence and has the objective of achieving a perfectly harmonised and coordinated connection to the academic level of studies.

The ‘F.A. Bonporti’ Conservatoire of Music acts in pre-academic education within two contexts, rooted in the territory and, on a functional level, reciprocally well integrated. The first is realised through the relationship with affiliated secondary schools, of first and second degree; the second – which is determined in more circumscribed terms – is determined in courses that the users attend beyond the relationship with secondary schools.

In both contexts of action, a pre-academic training is expressed, which aims at a structured and organic musical training – i.e. well correlated in the internal phases of the structure -, aimed at producing a fully integrated connection with the natural flow into the academic study-cycle.

Pre-academic training that takes place in specific musical courses, outside the context of relations with secondary schools, is structured according to levels of study that cover different training and teaching areas, aiming to achieve well-defined levels of competence. These courses are not tied to age groups.

Rules and Regulations

Regulations for Pre-Academic Courses 

Learning objectives pre-academic courses
Study Plans pre-academic courses
Certification exam programmes pre-academic courses
Indication of attendance history courses
Orchestral practice

Admission Examinations and Registration

In order to be admitted to the pre-academic courses, it is necessary to submit an application to the Conservatoire, within the deadline set annually by the Academic Council. In addition, an admission examination must be sustained, which establishes a ranking of suitable candidates. This ranking constitutes a reference for admission, in relation to the available places. The application for admission can be submitted for courses declared as open to activation and for which there are available places. The admission examination verifies the possession of an adequate level of preparation in relation to the application for admission. An application for admission may be submitted for each of the three Periods into which the Course is divided. If an application is made for the Second and Third Periods, the candidate must, as a general rule, possess all the certifications of competence required, in the course plan, for the preceding periods. Admission to the Singing or Composition courses takes place in the Second Period of studies, after having acquired certifications of competence at level A.