At age 16, Sánchez was cooking at a level that earned him a place in a Masterclass with chef Paul Prudhomme.
In a 2009 masterclass guided by Maestro Jorma Panula with the Rousse Philharmonic Orchestra in Bulgaria, Bashar conducted the first movement of the Resurrection Symphony by Gustav Mahler.
In February 2006, after winning the $10,000 Robert Helps Prize with My fleeting Angel (for piano trio), Frances-Hoad became Composer-in-Residence at the University of South Florida for a week, where she gave a two-hour lecture about her work, and a masterclass for both undergraduate and postgraduate composition students.
In 1967, he participated in the International Masterclass at Darmstadt (Germany) with among others, György Ligeti, Karlheinz Stockhausen and Earle Brown.
He later studied under Nippy Noya, from Amsterdam, and Karl Potter (USA), and participated in a masterclass with Billy Cobham, in Germany.
He is Artistic Director of the Sigismund Thalberg International Piano Prize and Artistic Director in many important Italian summer festivals such as “I concerti d’Estate a Villa Guariglia” in Vietri sul mare, "Jeux d'art a la Villa d'Este" in Tivoli, "Roccaraso in Musica" and of the International Piano Masterclass in Naples and Rome.
In 2007 Jansz was a Host Chef at the Great Barrier Feast Culinary Masterclass event on Hamilton Island which was hosted by Curtis Stone and featured other notable Australian chefs, Shannon Bennett, Justin North.
In 2012 she completed the Bernard Hiller Masterclass in Los Angeles, where she moved to in 2010 to pursue an international career.
He toured with Ballet Central during his third year and danced at the Kirov Masterclass at Sadlers Wells under the direction of Irek Mukhamedov.
Lyon taught at the 2010 Joop Swart Masterclass organized by the World Press Photo Foundation and was Chair of the Jury for the 2013 World Press Photo contest.
He is editor of A Gregorian Chant Masterclass by Theodore Marier, published by the Abbey of Regina Laudis in Bethlehem, Connecticut.
After recovering from a serious knee injury sustained in 1986, he was part of the Welsh Triple Crown (rugby union) winning side in 1988, most famously giving the then newly capped Jeff Probyn (a renowned scrummager himself) a scrummaging masterclass at Twickenham in an 11-3 victory.
He went from being a performer in the London Underground to giving masterclass University lectures on blues music whilst becoming a well known stage act.
She has appeared as a soloist with such groups as the Chicago Chamber Orchestra, Rome Festival Orchestra, and the Mozarteum Orchestra of Salzburg, as well as at multiple conferences of the International Double Reed Society, and performed as a recitalist and given masterclasses at dozens of universities and music festivals.
For his own further vocational education he attended a masterclass in 1992 which was held by the renowned American jazz trumpeter Claudio Roditi in Stuttgart.
Among the short films made, Eccesso di zelo (Too Much Zeal) (1997) won awards at many festivals - including the Nanni Moretti’s Sacher Silver Award and Universal Studios Award, which allowed Moroni to make a masterclass at the studios of Universal Pictures in Hollywood.