CESIMEX – Centro Superior Internacional de Música de Extremadura
Higher education centre in Cáceres, Spain
The Centro Superior Internacional de Música de Extremadura (CESIMEX) is a higher music school in Cáceres, at C/ San Pedro de Alcántara, 9. The Junta de Extremadura granted the administrative authorisation for it to open in the 2024/2025 academic year (Resolution of 1 February 2024, published in the DOE). The school states that teaching is personalised.
Its study plan covers three specialities:
- Pedagogy (Pedagogía)
- Composition (Composición)
- Performance (Interpretación): saxophone, trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba, percussion, piano and singing
The Pedagogy plan totals 240 ECTS credits over four years and includes external placements and a final project. CESIMEX also lists a continuing-education master's programme (máster de formación permanente) in music performance and research: 60 ECTS credits, taught online in Spanish, with 50 places.
Admission requires the Bachillerato or an equivalent route (university access exam for over-25s, a higher arts, university or Técnico Superior qualification) and a specific entrance exam that starts with a music analysis test.
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Programmes
- Pedagogy
- Composition
- Performance: saxophone
- Performance: trumpet, horn, trombone and tuba
- Performance: percussion
- Performance: piano
- Performance: singing
The Pedagogy plan totals 240 ECTS credits over four years, including external placements and a final project.
Graduate programmes
Master's programme in music performance and research (máster de formación permanente): 60 ECTS credits, taught online in Spanish, 50 places, campus listed as Salamanca. It combines advanced performance training with a grounding in research.
Admission
Applicants need one of the following: the Bachillerato (or its recognised equivalent), the university access exam for people over 25, a higher arts degree, a university degree or a Técnico Superior qualification. All take a specific entrance exam: a music analysis test followed by speciality tasks (for example, a performance of at least three works in different styles of up to 30 minutes plus sight-reading for Performance). The exam fee is €50.