He also taught at the Moscow Conservatory.

In 1944 he went to the Conservatoire de Paris.

He was the director of the National Conservatory of Music in New York.

He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris.

In 1837, he became an assistant in theory of music at the Conservatory.

In 2004, he is named professor of composition at the higher Academy of Geneva.

He graduated from the Paris Conservatory at 17, in 1923.

Until 1945 he performed exclusively in Russia and taught at the Moscow Conservatory at the same time.

At the same time he was earning money for his family by playing in local cafés.

In 1921, Oborin was accepted into Moscow Conservatory as a student of piano and composition.

Shortly afterwards, in 1963, Gott left the conservatory to continue his studies privately until 1966.

Impressed by her voice and performance, he advised her to enroll in the conservatory, which she did.

When Milstein was 11, Leopold Auer invited him to become one of his students at the St. Petersburg Conservatory.

So I moved to Baltimore to be near my doctors and enrolled in a conservatory nearby.

A Sasakawa Foundation Scholarship allowed him to follow the studies of composition and analysis in Montreal with Gilles Tremblay.

He studied opera at the Prague Conservatory under Konstantin Karenin, a student of the brilliant Russian bass Feodor Chaliapin.

At the age of 18 she entered the Moscow Conservatory where she studied with Konstantin Igumnov and Yakov Flier.

He went to the Real Conservatorio (Royal Conservatory) in Madrid and studied piano with Julia Parody.

Fournier was a teacher at the École Normale de Musique in Paris and the Paris Conservatoire from 1937 to 1949.

From 1886 to 1890 he studied composition with Iwan Knorr and piano with James Kwast at the Hoch Conservatory in Frankfurt.

During this period he was also teaching musical theory and improvisation at the Jaques Dalcroze Institute, and chamber music at the Geneva Conservatory.

In 1876 the school got permission to change its name to Königliches Konservatorium der Musik zu Leipzig , Royal Conservatory of Music of Leipzig.

Founder member of the Baio Ensemble (1983), nowadays teaches Piano Jazz at Conservatorio Superior de A Coruña (Spain) and leads the Alberto Conde Trío.

Safonov was never a particularly successful composer in his own right, but was a master music educator, becoming Director of the Moscow Conservatory in 1889.

At the age of 14 he joined the Arabic Music Institute in Cairo and became known for singing the songs of Mohammed Abdel Wahab.

Stampone earned a presidential scholarship from Juan Perón in 1950, by which he studied under maestro Carlos Zecchi at the Conservatorio di Santa Cecilia, in Rome.

This began his career as a teacher, which was to remain one of his main occupations after leaving the Conservatoire in 1898 and into his last years.

) Early career After his graduation from the Royal Conservatory of Liège, Ysaÿe was the principal violin of the Benjamin Bilse beer hall orchestra, which later developed into the Berlin Philharmonic.

From the beginning of 1818, he taught composition at the Conservatoire, where over the years he had for pupils Hector Berlioz, Ambroise Thomas, Charles Gounod, Louis Désiré Besozzi and Antoine François Marmontel.

Stanford University invited him in 1999 to introduce his music and that same year he was appointed, along with Luis de Pablo, resident at the Musica Festival and the Strasburg Conservatoire.

He has received three Honorary Degrees on May 11, 2006, from New York University on September 28, 2007, from Shenandoah Conservatory of Shenandoah University and on May 23, 2008, from Montclair State University.

He entered the Central School of Music at the age of 13, studying under Evgeny Timakin, and, in 1974, entered the Moscow Conservatory, studying under Yakov Flier and Lev Vlassenko.

He grew up during travels across half of Europe and, after the early death of his father, the family moved from Linz to Vienna (1888) where in 1892, with the help of a scholarship, Schreker entered the Vienna Conservatory.

He won second prize in the International Chopin Piano Competition in Warsaw in 1955 and the first prize in the Queen Elisabeth Music Competition in Brussels in 1956.

Following a bout of tuberculosis that required a stay in a sanatorium in Switzerland, Szigeti settled in Geneva, where he became Professor of Violin at the local conservatory in 1917.

Early career On March 19, 1934, Richter gave his first recital, at the Engineers' Club of Odessa but he did not formally start studying piano until three years later, when he decided to seek out Heinrich Neuhaus, a famous pianist and piano teacher, at the Moscow Conservatory.

Sullivan's scholarship was extended to a second year, and in 1858 in what the biographer Arthur Jacobs calls an extraordinary gesture of confidence the scholarship committee extended his grant for a third year so that he could study in Germany, at the Leipzig Conservatoire.

It was oxygen. I was lucky enough to have studied at the Juilliard School in Manhattan, and to have played my debut with Zubin Mehta and the Israeli philharmonic orchestra in Tel Aviv, and it turned out that Gottfried Schlaug had studied as an organist at the Vienna Conservatory, but had given up his love for music to pursue a career in medicine. And that afternoon, I had to ask him, How was it for you making that decision?