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2 unusual facts about Private Lessons


Élizabeth Bourgine


She was awarded the Prix Romy Schneider Prize in 1985.

In 2011 she appeared in the joint French/British production Death in Paradise, a crime drama/comedy filmed in Guadeloupe for BBC One, but she is best known in France for her roles A Heart in Winter (1992), My Best Friend (2006) and Private Lessons (1986).

Jay Stewart

Stewart was even the announcer in the trailers and T.V. spots for the company's controversial 1981 sex comedy Private Lessons.



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Ambrose Dyson

He may have studied at the Melbourne National Gallery Art School and certainly took private lessons with Tom Durkin, but was mostly self-taught.

Aubrey Foard

In addition, Foard is the Adjunct Professor of Tuba and Trombone for the West Virginia State University Music Department giving, private lessons via Skype with occasional in person lessons and master classes.

Cornelia Samuelis

She supplemented her formal studies with master-classes with Klesie Kelly and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau, as well as private lessons with Peter Jacoby, Thomas Quasthoff and Ulla Groenewold.

Dan Greenburg

Greenburg has had small acting roles in several films he's written, including Private Lessons, Private School, and I Could Never... He had ten speaking scenes in Doc, the Frank Perry remake of Gunfight at the O.K. Corral, playing the role of John Clum, editor of the Tombstone Epitaph.

Élie Ossipovitch

Élie Ossipovitch (1987) a is French western classical guitarist, who studied in the Conservatory of Chambéry, and followed private lessons with prominent French classical guitarists.

Gastón Arce Sejas

He was born in La Paz, after taking private lessons of music theory, piano and viola in his youth, he began formal musical studies in 1983 at La Plata's National University, Faculty of Beaux Arts in Argentina, under the guidance of Argentinian composer Mariano Etkin.

Karl Emil Franzos

The first languages he spoke were Ukrainian and Polish, learnt from his nurse; his first school was attached to the Czortkow Dominican abbey, where the teaching was in Latin and Polish; and he attended private lessons in Hebrew.

Lars Kristian Brynildsen

He studied clarinet at the music conservatories in Oslo, Norway and Freiburg, Germany in addition to taking private lessons in Paris.

Louis Moyse

He continued giving private lessons in Westport, New York while touring with his wife Janet White Moyse, of 33 years, around the world and the United States.

Louis Van Lint

In the 1960s, he introduced Hergé to abstract painting and provided him with private lessons for one year.

Matthias Dahms

During his university years he additionally had private lessons with David Friedman (USA) and attended workshops with e.g. Keiko Abe, Billy Hart, Dave Weckl, Billy Cobham, Ed Thigpen, David Liebman/Richard Beirach, and Reinhard Flatischler.

Mohammed Hasan Kamaluddin


With the help of local elderly men who supported and encouraged the idea, the starting location of the school was at Noaim's Western Matam (Hussainia), where Kamaluddin personally taught private lessons of the basics of reading and writing the Arabic language.

Old Fort Park and Golf Course

Private lessons are also available with the on-staff PGA instructor.