Our home
Over the years, the Academy has had to grow to welcome more and more students. Today it is based in Précigné, in the former Preventorium.
For 400 years this site has been home to buildings that served as a boys’ school at the time of the Revolution, an internment camp “for undesirables” during the First World War, a preventorium and more recently the Centre Basile-Moreau.
Since 2022, the students have brought back to life, with their joy and their singing, these 8,000 m² of buildings that once belonged to the Marianite Sisters of Holy Cross.
Our students' timetable
For a glimpse of a day at the Academy, read the December 2017 issue of the Académie Musicale de Liesse newsletter: A day at the Academy.
Here are two typical timetables, for a student in the pre-choir school and a student in the choir school.
In each period, a student may have:
- an academic class,
- a tutoring session or private study,
- a piano lesson or another instrument,
- a musicianship class,
to which are added a daily time of piano practice, a time of practice on the second instrument where applicable, and possibly an instrumental ensemble lesson.
Each student thus has an entirely personalised timetable.
| Time | Activity |
|---|---|
| 7h00 | Wake-up |
| 7h20 | Breakfast |
| 7h45 | Brushing teeth |
| 8h00 | Morning prayer in the chapel |
| 8h15 | Lessons (academic lessons, study periods, tutoring, instrumental practice) |
| 10h35 | Break |
| 10h55 | Lessons (academic lessons, study periods, tutoring, instrumental practice) |
| 12h30 | Pause |
| 12h35 | Angelus and hymn at the chapel (flag-raising on Monday) |
| 12h45 | Lunch |
| 13h30 | Break |
| 14h00 | Lessons (academic lessons, study periods, tutoring, instrumental practice) |
| 16h20 | Break |
| 17h00 | Musical rehearsals, specialism, or pre-choir school time |
| 18h30 | Vespers or study |
| 19h15 | Dinner |
| 20h00 | Up to the dormitory, and evening prayer |
| 20h20 | Lights out |
| Time | 5ème — 4ème | 3ème | Lycée (ages 15–18) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 7h00 | Wake-up | ||
| 7h20 | Breakfast | ||
| 7h45 | Brushing teeth | ||
| 8h00 | Morning prayer in the chapel | ||
| 8h15 | Lessons (academic lessons, study periods, tutoring, instrumental practice) | ||
| 10h35 | Break | ||
| 10h55 | Lessons (academic lessons, study periods, tutoring, instrumental practice) | ||
| 12h30 | Pause | ||
| 12h35 | Angelus and hymn at the chapel (flag-raising on Monday) | ||
| 12h45 | Lunch | ||
| 13h30 | Break | ||
| 14h00 | Lessons (academic lessons, study periods, tutoring, instrumental practice) | ||
| 16h20 | Break | ||
| 17h00 | Musical rehearsals, specialism, or pre-choir school time | ||
| 18h30 | Vespers or study | ||
| 19h15 | Dinner | ||
| 20h00 | Break | ||
| ↓ From 20h15 — according to year group ↓ | |||
| 5ème — 4ème | 3ème | Lycée (ages 15–18) | |
| 20h15 | Optional study until 20h45 | Evening study | |
| 20h30 | Evening prayer in the chapel, then up to the rooms | ||
| 21h00 | Lights out | ||
| 21h15 | End of study | ||
| 21h30 | Evening prayer in the chapel | ||
| 21h45 | Up to the dormitory | End of study | |
| 22h00 | Lights out | Free time, free prayer, then up to the rooms | |
| 22h30 | Lights out | ||
Our uniform
For singing the liturgy and for everyday life at the Academy, our students wear a simple, dignified uniform suited to each occasion.
Here are the uniforms worn by the students of the Académie Musicale de Liesse:
- Usual uniform: black shoes, grey trousers, white shirt, grey jumper and a tie in the colours of the Academy.
- Concert, Vespers and special-occasion uniform: the usual uniform together with the navy-blue jacket bearing the Academy’s coat of arms.
- Winter cape and uniform scarf: a wool cape and a wool scarf in the colours of the Academy.
- Summer outing uniform: beige shorts and a white polo shirt in the colours of the Academy.