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4 unusual facts about André Navarra


André Navarra

In addition to his position at the Conservatoire de Paris, Navarra taught summer courses at the Accademia Musicale Chigiana Siena from 1954, fall courses in Saint-Jean-de-Luz and accepted an additional professorship at the Hochschule für Musik Detmold in 1958.

This included transcribing many of the violin technical methods to make up for a lack of decent cello études, including those of Carl Flesch and Otakar Ševčík.

Navarra also developed friendships with composers Jacques Ibert, Florent Schmitt, and Arthur Honegger.

Angela East

Angela won the Arts Council's Suggia Award at the age of 14 and continued her studies at the Royal Academy of Music under Derek Simpson and later with André Navarra and Christopher Bunting.


Cairo Symphony Orchestra

Among the soloists who have performed with the Cairo Symphony Orchestra are Rudolf Buchbinder, Joerg Demus, Mstislav Rostropovich, Alexander Frey, Viktoria Postnikova, Abdel Rahman El-Basha, Ramzy Yassa, André Navarra, Yekaterina Lebedeva, Stefan Vladar and Christian Altenburger.


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