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2 unusual facts about music school


College of the Arts, Windhoek

Cota was established by citizens of German heritage in 1971 as a Whites-only State Conservatory of Music.

Herciana Matmuja

At the same time, she competed for the right to study in the "Santa Cecilia" Conservatory in Rome (being qualified as the first of the list), where she studies canto and started committing professionally to music, participating on concerts and competitions for classical music.


École César Franck

The École César-Franck (César Franck School, named after César Franck) was a music school founded in Paris in January 1935 by Guy de Lioncourt, Louis de Serres, Pierre de Bréville and Marcel Labey.

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.

Jean-Baptiste Robin

He continued composition studies with George Benjamin (King's College London) and organ studies with Louis Robilliard (Conservatoire de Lyon, Prix de Perfectionnement), Odile Bailleux (Conservatoire de Bourg-la-Reine, Prix de Perfectionnement), and Marie-Claire Alain (regional conservatory of Paris).

Krzysztof Czerwiński

Czerwinski studied at Wieniawski School of music (Poznań, Poland), Eastman School of Music (University of Rochester, New York, U.S.) and Birmingham Conservatoire (University of Central England, Birmingham, UK).

National Theatre of Strasbourg

In 1922, the conservatory of Strasbourg (founded in 1855, the same year as the Orchestre philharmonique) was moved into the upper part of the building and several teaching rooms were built in as well as a concert hall.

The Winsford E-ACT Academy

The Academy has four houses which, as a Specialist Music School, are named after English composers, Britten, Purcell,Elgar and Sullivan.


see also

Abdalla El-Masri

El-Masri studied guitar with Isaac Escaf at a music school in Hammana from 1977–79 and studied guitar and music theory with Joseph Ashkhanyan at the Centre Culturel Espagnol in Beirut from 1979-82.

Alemu Aga

He went on to study geography at Addis Ababa University, and after graduation went to work as a geography and begena professor at the Yared Music School, where for seven years he also taught begena.

Alexey Ivanovich Borozdin

He graduated from the Kursk Music College in 1957, then studied in the L'vov Music School until 1961, when he dropped out for a teaching career and did not complete his formal music education until 1976, when he graduated from the Novosibirsk Music School.

Beatriz Bilbao

She continued her studies at Indiana University Music School with Frederick Fox, Juan Orrego Salas and John Eaton and at the New England Conservatory of Music and the Cluj Napoca Conservatory in Romania.

Catherine Filene Shouse

Born into a wealthy merchandising family, her grandfather William Filene founded Filene's department store, her father was the founder of the Boston Symphony and her mother started the Boston Music School for Underprivileged Children.

Chris Hersch

From 2004 to 2012, Chris Hersch taught guitar, banjo, and general music at many schools in the Boston area: Powers Music School (Belmont, Massachusetts), Cape Cod Conservatory (Falmouth MA), Community Music Center of Boston (Boston), Brookline Music School (Brookline, Mass), and BU High School (Boston).

Damian Keyes

In 2001, Keyes and Dickinson left ACM to start their own music school in Brighton with 2 other directors called The Brighton Institute of Modern Music.

Dang Ngoc Long

Today he lives in Berlin and is the art director of the International Guitar Competition & Festival Berlin end director of the music school Berlin

De-Wet Nagel

In 2005, he started the music school Ultimate Drummers, which offers drum-kit and electric guitar lessons to high school students in affiliation with Trinity College London who sends examiners down to South Africa on a yearly basis to provide certificate exams to affiliated schools.

Elizabeth Harwood

After a music school, she enjoyed an operatic career lasting for over two decades and worked with such conductors as Colin Davis and Herbert von Karajan.

Ferdinand Kauer

He directed the Leopoldstadt Theater Music School and by the 1790s had become known for his popular Singspiele.

Francesca Chiara

At 19 years old she moved from Padova to Milan and started studying music for three years in a music school but then she left it.

Hatano Jazz Band

Hatano Jazz Band (Japanese: Hatano Orchestra ハタノ・オーケストラ) was the first jazz band in Japan and was founded by graduates from Toyo Music School in 1912.

Ivan Boumans

He currently teaches at the Conservatoire de musique du Nord of Ettelbruck (Luxembourg), and at the UGDA music school.

J. Rosamond Johnson

After returning to the United States, New York's Music School Settlement for Colored — founded by the New York Symphony Orchestra's David Mannes — appointed him as director where he served from 1914 to 1919.

John G. Shedd

In 2002, The John G. Shedd Institute for the Arts, a community-based performing arts center and music school in Eugene, Oregon, was co-founded by one of his great-grandchildren.

Kneisel Hall

After a long hiatus, the Kneisel Hall Chamber Music School was reestablished in 1953 by Kneisel's daughter Marianne Kneisel, pianist Artur Balsam, violinist Joseph Fuchs and violist Lillian Fuchs.

Laura Karpman

Karpman worked with John Harbison at the Tanglewood Music Center, and attended Aspen Music School and the Ecole des Arts Americaines, where she worked with Nadia Boulanger.

Leda Battisti

After enrolling the CET, a music school founded and directed by Mogol, and after several significant collaborations including Ottmar Liebert, in 1998 Battisti obtained her first success with the song "Come l'acqua al deserto".

Ludwig Sugiri

He taught music at Yamaha Music School Jakarta (1993-2000), graduated from Trisakti University and earned a Bachelor Degree in Visual Communication.

Malvina Major

As her potential blossomed, Major began travelling weekly to Ponsonby in Auckland, where she received further tuition from Dame Sister Mary Leo at St Mary's College Music School.

Mario Raskin

Raskin teaches harpsichord at the music school at Joinville-le-Pont.

Marta Roure

She attended first course of guitar and song at the Music School in Lleida and studies of musical theater at Youkali school in Barcelona, with Marc Montserrat, "el Sueco" and Susanna Egea as teachers of interpretation, Emma Reverter as teacher of Dance Jazz, Rosa Mateu in spoken voice technics, Enric Torner as teacher of claque, Josep Maria Borràs teacher of sol-fa and repertoire, and Fulgenci Mestres and Carme Sánchez teachers of song.

Michaela Dornonville de la Cour

Prior to joining Army of Lovers, de la Cour qualified as a teacher (and has taught at the Adolf-Fredrik music school in Stockholm) and studied at the Lee Strasberg Theatre Institute in Los Angeles.

Mruthyunjay C Doddawad

To pursue more knowledge in music he joined guru Late Mr. James at James Institute of Modern Music in Bangalore, where he started a career in teaching keyboard and served in various organizations like V.E.T.School (J.P.Nagar), Sadhana Music School (led by Smt. Manjula Gururaj ), and Bhaaratiya Vidhya Bhavan, Bangalore.

Paulo Costa Lima

After studying composition with Jamary Oliveira and Ernst Widmer in Brazil, and Ben Johnston and Herbert Brün at the University of Illinois, USA, he became a professor at the Universidade Federal da Bahia, and held several positions such as Director of the Music School (1988–1992) and Assistant Vice-President for Community Affairs (1996–2002).

Pavel Gintov

At the age of 6 he started his musical education at Kiev Central Music School and continued at the Moscow State Conservatory, where he was a student of the proclaimed "Godfather of the Russian piano school" Lev Naumov (custodian of the Heinrich Neuhaus methods that are credited with producing many extraordinary 20th-century Russian keyboard masters such as Gilels and Richter) and his assistant Daniil Kopylov.

Pavel Nersessian

He began his teaching job as an assistant to Sergei Dorensky and as a concertmaster of the Children's Music School number 60 in Moscow.

Phillip Frost

In honor of their bequest, the largest ever given to a university-based music school in the U.S. at the time, the School of Music was officially renamed the Phillip and Patricia Frost School of Music.

Quartetto di Cremona

The ensemble, with the current members since 2002, continued their studies with Piero Farulli of the Quartetto Italiano at the Music School of Fiesole and with Hatto Beyerle of the Alban Berg Quartet.

Radio Taxi

Wander Taffo released 3 solo albums and opened a music school in São Paulo, following the successful format of the American Musicians Institute.

Ratimir Martinović

Martinović was born in Kotor, Montenegro, then Yugoslavia, where he completed the elementary music school; he continued his education in Novi Sad at the Isidor Bajić Music school and at the Academy of Art in the class of the world-renowned pianist Kemal Gekić.

Roman Simovych

From 1936 to 1939 he was a teacher of piano and theoretical subjects at the M. Lysenko Music Institute in Drohobych and Stanislav, and from 1939 to 1942 at the music school in Stanislav (now - Ivano-Frankivsk).

Tex Thornton

The music school at the University of Southern California is named in honor of Thornton's widow, Flora L. Thornton, due in part to a $25 million donation she made in 1999.

The Northshore Regional Endowment For The Arts

Working with the Community Music School at Southeastern Louisiana University under the direction of Dr. Thais Perkins, in 2004 the Endowment sponsored a direct teaching project.

The Second Hurricane

The Second Hurricane was Copland's first attempt at composing opera and was commissioned by the Henry Street Settlement in New York City where it premiered on 21 April 1937 at the settlement's playhouse performed by students at its music school.

Valentina Kameníková

During World War II, due to her origin, she was relegated to Siberia, studying and playing the piano, first in Odessa at a local music school, then at the Odessa Conservatory, and later at the Moscow Conservatory.

Vasyl Shevchenko

From Mykola Lysenko's letters it can be seen that at one time negotiations were taking place for Shevchenko to teach bandura at Lysenko's music school in Kiev, however it does not seem that they came to an understanding.

Violeta Dinescu

She started teaching at the George Enescu Music School in Bucharest, conducting courses in Music history, Aesthetics, Counterpoint, Harmony and Piano.

Wayne Escoffery

At sixteen, he left the choir and began a more intensive study of the saxophone, attending the Jazzmobile in New York City, the Neighborhood Music School in New Haven, and the ACES Educational Center for the Arts in New Haven.

WhoCares

On a return visit to Armenia to receive honorary presidential medal for their efforts, Gillan and Iommi learned about a derelict music school in Gyumri heavily affected by the earthquake.

WhoCares was a supergroup formed by Ian Gillan of Deep Purple and Tony Iommi of Black Sabbath in 2011 with the participation of a great number of rock artists as a charity project to raise money to rebuild a music school in Gyumri, Armenia after the destruction of the city in the 1988 earthquake in Armenia.

Zenaida Manfugás

Her family moved to Baracoa, where her father was appointed municipal judge and her mother opened a music school affiliated with the Conservatorio Orbón.