The Conservatoire de Paris, also known as the Paris Conservatory, is a college of music and dance founded in 1795. Officially known as the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP), it is situated in the avenue Jean Jaurès in the 19th arrondissement of Paris, France. The Conservatoire offers instruction in music and dance, drawing on the traditions of the 'French School'.
Eric Rosenblith was an Austrian-born American violinist. He was the former concertmaster of the Indianapolis and San Antonio Symphony Orchestras, and had performed as a soloist and chamber musician throughout North America, Europe, and Asia. Rosenblith served as chairman of the New England Conservatory's string department for more than twenty-five years and was a faculty member of the Hartt School as well as the Longy School of Music in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a visiting professor at the University of Kansas.
Marco Tezza is an Italian pianist.
Marina Scalafiotti is an Italian pianist and teacher known for her interpretations spanning from baroque to contemporary music.
Ramzi Yassa is an Egyptian pianist. Born in Cairo, Yassa is an outstanding member of the first batch of musicians trained at the Cairo Conservatory. Yassa then joined the Tchaikovsky Conservatory in Moscow in the class of Sergei Dorensky, where he earned an Honorary certificate after taking part in the 1974 Tchaikovsky competition. He then launched a concert career, settling in Paris. In 1977, he was the first Egyptian pianist to win a major piano competition—the 'Paloma O'Shea' Santander International Piano Competition.
The École Normale de Musique de Paris "Alfred Cortot" (ENMP) is a leading conservatoire located in Paris, Île-de-France, France. The school was founded in 1919 by Auguste Mangeot and Alfred Cortot. The term école normale meant a teacher training institution, and the school was intended to produce music teachers as well as concert performers.
France Clidat was a French pianist renowned for her interpretations of the works of Franz Liszt, a great many of which she recorded, and Erik Satie, whose complete piano works she recorded.
Ali Cemal Darmar is a Turkish pianist and composer. He had studied piano with Verda Un, Ferdi Statzer and Popi Mihailides in his early years. He has a degree in Pharmacy.
Boaz Sharon is a pianist, recording artist and professor of piano at Boston University as well as Director of Piano Studies at Boston University Tanglewood Institute. He is a frequent performer in the U.S., China, Russia, Czech Republic and other countries.
Victor Paukstelis is a Lithuanian pianist and painter.
Erol Erdinç is a Turkish conductor of classical music, composer, pianist and educator.
Madeleine (Hsu) Forte is a Franco-American pianist, recording artist, and Professor Emerita of Piano at the Morrison Center for the Performing Arts at Boise State University.
Françoise Choveaux is a French composer and pianist.
Françoise Thinat in Gien (Loiret), is a French classical pianist.
Lucas Debargue is a French pianist and composer. He was awarded fourth prize at the XV International Tchaikovsky Competition.
Maurice Hippolyte Dumesnil was a French classical pianist.
Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri is an Italian classical pianist and pedagogue.
Vincent Ghadimi is a Belgian pianist and composer, piano and solfège professor and accompanist at the Dutch-speaking Academy of Brussels.
Margherita Torretta is an Italian concert pianist. Although she began training as a pianist relatively late in life, she rapidly attained the status of worldwide performer. She is currently based in London.
Genevieve Feiwen Lee is an American pianist and musicologist. She is the Everett S. Olive Professor of Music at Pomona College in Claremont, California.
