The HEM comprises six departments, each with its own teaching, research and production activities: the Keyboard Instruments department, the Orchestral Instruments department, the Vocal department, the Early Music department, the Music and Movement department and the Composition and Theory department.

The departments are linked by various common activities (ensemble work and work between composers, improvisers and performers) and are also involved in multidisciplinary partnerships with other schools.

Heads of the six departments & ethnomusicology

Ricardo Castro, head of the Keyboard Instruments department
Patrick Lehmann, head of the Orchestral Instruments department
Marcin Habela, head of the Vocal department
Elizabeth Dobbin, head of the Early Music department
Sylvie Morgenegg, head of the Music and Movement department
Nicolas Bolens, head of the Composition and Theory department
Xavier Bouvier, head of the Master of Ethnomusicology