Discover IESA and Its 4 Fields of Study

At IESA arts & culture, experience culture to learn how to make a living from culture.

Discover our 4 fields of study through our instructors and students.

4 Fields of Study

  • Music
  • Art Market
  • Performing Arts
  • Cinema

Bachelor and Masters Level Programs

Each track offers Bachelors-level programs (3 years) and Masters or Professional Masters-level programs (5 years).

Bachelors are three-year programs after high school. They can be joined in the 2nd or 3rd year. Masters are two-year programs after a bachelor’s degree. Students who already hold a Master 1 can join the Professional Masters in one year.

Professionalization at the Heart of Teaching

Professionalization is at the heart of our teaching, which is why 90% of the instructors are practicing professionals.

At IESA, teaching is project-based:

Sundown Sessions:

Experience and organize live concerts through the Sundown Sessions, a project born during the 2020 lockdown, when concert venues were closed. Once a month, IESA arts&culture students perform at the Jamel Comedy Club.

No Frontiers:

NO FRONTIERS is a solidarity and humanitarian project that supports the welcome and integration of refugees.

It is carried by a group of young art and culture professionals, 2nd-year students in the Bachelor in Cultural Productions.

IESA, a Player in Culture

Play it Indie Showcase:

For 9 years now, IESA arts&culture has been partnering with the Play it Indie music showcase.

1st-year Master in Performing Arts Production students are in charge of the entire production of the event. It is a music showcase designed to promote and support emerging contemporary music artists. During this event the artists perform in front of a jury of professionals. The showcase focuses above all on the needs of emerging artists, likely to advance their careers, and offers them numerous support prizes.

Juvenars-IESA Prize:

The Juvenars-IESA Prize is awarded each year by IESA arts&culture, the international school for culture careers and the art market, to a young artist under 30, not represented by a gallery. The winner is rewarded with the sum of €5000, a solo show in the IESA gallery and the exhibition of a work at a Contemporary Art Fair. The amount of this endowment comes from donations, acquired and sold at auction by the students, for the benefit of the Association des amis de l’IESA, which funds this prize and some of the student projects supporting young creation.