Courses Saint Louis

Saint Louis College of Music is the place where passion for music meets innovation. Saint Louis College of Music in Rome is the authorized higher education institution by the italian's Ministry of University and Research (MUR), offering academic courses and highly specialized programs in Jazz, Popular Music, Electronic Music, Composition and Film Scoring, Sound Engineering, and Classical Music. Within Saint Louis College of Music, students have the opportunity to refine their techniques and finally transform their passion for music into a professional career.

JAZZ

Individual lessons in instrument: Bass, Drums, Singing, Guitar, Double Bass, Piano, Saxophone, Trumpet, Trombone, Violin.

Improvisation and ensemble music workshops for an evolutionary journey from traditional jazz to be-bop, to the modern influences of Italian and European jazz.

The education provided by the Saint Louis College of Music starts from the basics in pre-academic courses and guides students through specialized two-year programs or advanced training, all through an experiential and practical educational path that ultimately aims to integrate students into the professional circuits of jazz.

POPULAR MUSIC

Choose between two paths, one as a performer where you can select from Bass, Drums, Singing, Guitar, and Piano/Keyboards, and a compositional path to become a songwriter.

Students' musical projects are presented live on the stages of Saint Louis events and released through its labels. Students perform in professional settings such as festivals and theaters, working as sidemen for prominent artists as part of their training and integration into the workforce.

Additionally, during the two-year program, each student is guided step by step in producing their own original artistic projects.

COMPOSITION, FILM SCORING & APPLIED MUSIC

If your creativity manifests itself in technological and compositional skills, training in Composition is the right synthesis of practical education and involvement in real orchestral projects.

A path to educate composers in the musical and cinematic fields, but not limited to that. Specialized in applied music, providing musical compositional support to various components of the music industry, from theater to communication, from gaming to music libraries, and much more.

electronic music

At the Saint Louis College of Music in Rome, an avant-garde workshop for musical innovation is provided, designed to train future artists, DJs, music producers, and electroacoustic composers.

This environment fosters the learning of contemporary electronic music production, with the goal of creating flexible professionals in response to changes in the electronic music market. The educational path is both theoretical and practical, involving students in live electronics concerts at festivals and theaters, as well as in the soundtracking of installations, images, and multimedia projects.

SOUND ENGINEERING

A training path that combines science and art, shaping excellent audio professionals. Saint Louis offers a program that delves into all the techniques used today by music producers, allowing students to gain experience in various work situations, both in the studio and live settings, using analog systems and digital environments.

In the two-year program, a dual path allows students to choose their specialization in Mix & Mastering or Live Sound, developing the specific skills required by the working world for the respective areas of application.

Job Outlets

The opportunities for Saint Louis students are numerous; here are some listed within the world of cinema and television:

Collaboration with the movies' director Pupi Avati for the movie “Se sei così ti dico sì” and with the production of the famous italian tv serie “Don Matteo 8”;
Collaboration for the shooting of the teaser video for the blockbuster "Thor: Love and Thunder" with Natalie Portman;
Rocco Papaleo's tour with the theatrical show“Coast to coast”;
"Amici"'s Orchestra on Canale 5, one of the most important tv network in Italy, as choir members for the singer Valerio Scanu;
Piazza Vittorio's orchestra at Sanremo Giovani, the younger version of the most famous music competition in Italy.

SAINT LOUIS COLLEGE OF MUSIC

Founded in 1976, Saint Louis is a private institution recognized by the Italian Ministry of University and Research. It stands out as one of the most prestigious music education establishments in Europe, attracting over 1,800 students annually from around the world. These students attend Foundation's, Bachelor's, Master's courses, Custom and Higher Specialization courses. The school prides itself on a stable faculty comprising 120 nationally and internationally renowned teachers, headed since 1998 by Maestro Stefano Mastruzzi. Saint Louis is located in culturally vibrant districts in Rome and Milan, offering students with multifunctional classrooms, recording studios for both teaching and recording productions, an artistic agency, independent record collections, a production center, the Jazz Archive, and a Bibliomediatheque.