After a childhood spent at the conservatory, going as far as to integrate a CHAM class in high school, I did not appreciate the curriculum proposed in cycle 3 of the conservatory and I therefore stopped classical music at 14. After my engineering studies, I gradually regained my taste for music by approaching the repertoire of traditional and improvised music. An extended stay of 6 years in South America as a musician allowed me to study many musical cultures. Upon my return to France, I decided to train in teaching pedagogy and it is by talking with former music teachers that I came to know the CFMI of Aix-en-Provence.

These two years of study were very intense, because of the eclectic program that forces us to leave our comfort zone. I was able to develop solid skills in vocal technique, group pedagogy, MAO and especially a pedagogy of learning through creation. The teachers are of a high quality and are all active in the region, which allows us to have a precise feedback on our future in the profession. The only criticism I have of this training is that it would perhaps be more interesting to delve into the specialities of each student, this would probably avoid an unnecessary expenditure of energy in certain subjects which will be useless for certain profiles.

The possibilities of work after the DUMI are great, it will be necessary to make a choice according to one's preferences. Full-time jobs as a guest musician are plentiful if you are willing to travel around the country. After discovering the Orchestre à l'École and DEMOS programs in my second year, I decided to look for work in these programs and I am now part of DEMOS Marseille as a clarinet player and pedagogical manager. I also kept a link with singing in schools, the heart of the MI's work, by working for Musicatreize within a school. By choice, I did not look for another job because I wish to reserve a part of my time to my professional artistic life.

Immersed in music since childhood, I took piano lessons for ten years in an associative music school. I also took singing lessons for a long time and performed on stage at the same time.

After obtaining a degree in Education Sciences, I discovered by chance the training for the profession of Musicien Intervenant; which combined my passion for music and pedagogy.

My two years at the CFMI were very beneficial to me both artistically and personally. It developed my curiosity, my creativity and a better self-confidence. It is a multidisciplinary training that combines: singing, instruments, body expression, theater, practical training...

As soon as I obtained my diploma as an intervening musician, in July 2022, I applied to the Cité des Arts de Montpellier where my application was accepted. I am now a salaried employee, employed by the Metropolis on a full time position (20 hours). Thanks to the many skills I acquired at the CFMI, I am blossoming day by day in this profession-passion.

After a career in commerce, I decided to change careers at the age of 40. I upgraded my piano playing and musical training, then I joined the CFMI.

I was recruited as a full time musician in a Conservatoire à Rayonnement Intercommunal as soon as I obtained the dumi.

A few years later, I was awarded tenure through a competitive examination, and I am in charge of the coordination of the Music Teachers' Department.

Today I wish to upgrade my skills in the discipline of orchestra conducting, which is a prerequisite for passing the competitive examination for Professor of Artistic Education in charge of conducting conservatories.

The more I advance in my career, the more I notice the enormous richness that is transmitted to us during these two years of training. I made the most of every lesson, everything was necessary, and I never found myself without resources when faced with a new pedagogical situation. And this experience of working in a microcosm between students, where one learns to collaborate, to assert oneself or to adapt, which can be as exciting as frustrating according to the constraints, gives all the relational assets that will be put into play in the work of partnership that is inseparable from the profession of intervening musician.

One of the most beautiful steps I have taken in my life is my passage through the CFMI in Aix en Provence. A transformative and alchemical PAS-SAGE.

Transformative because my life after that has never been the same; and alchemical because the human substance that I was at the time has been profoundly changed by the light, the intelligence and the love of the teaching staff and of my fellow students that I will keep in my heart forever.

When I decided to take that small step, all the doors opened one after the other at once. I got help from the Fongecif to finance the training and they even gave me a salary to study the first year. In the second year I used up all the money I had left from my unemployment.

Herman Hesse says in his book Demian "The bird seeks to free itself from the egg. The egg is the world. Whoever wants to be born must destroy a world.

I chose to destroy my world at age 40 in 2012. A world where I was not living from music and I was not happy, doing one small job after another in a hotel, in the ski lifts of Pra loup and in the Ubaye valley in the Alpes de Haute Provence, a world without purpose, without goal, where life went by and the days looked like each other in a monotonous and joyless time loop like "The Desert of the Tartars."