École Normale de Musique de Paris
The École was founded on 6 October 1919 as a private institution by French pianist Alfred Cortot and Auguste Mangeot, director of the magazine Le Monde musical.Notable artists who have lectured include Alfred Cortot himself, Samson François, Mstislav Rostropovich, Thomas Hampson, and, more recently, Anne Queffélec, Inva Mula, Natalia Gutman, Karine Deshayes, François-René Duchâble, Vincent Le Texier, Mikhail Rudy, Barbara Hannigan, Emmanuel Pahud, James Galway, Michel Portal, Maria João Pires, Abdel Rahman El Bacha, András Schiff and Vladimir Cosma.[9] Former distinguished members of faculty include Jean-François Antonioli, Narcís Bonet, Pierre Bernac, Nadia Boulanger, Pablo Casals, Alfred Cortot, Georges Dandelot, Nelson Delle-Vigne Fabbri, Paul Dukas, Henri Dutilleux, Georges Enescu, Philippe Entremont, Zino Francescatti, Arthur Honegger, Wanda Landowska, Jean Micault, Charles Munch, Magda Tagliaferro, Yoshihisa Taïra, Jacques Thibaud, France Clidat, Françoise Thinat and Pierre-Henri Xuereb.Prominent current members of faculty include Rafael Andia, Henri Barda, Erik Berchot, Philippe Bianconi, Régis Campo, Rena Cherechevskaïa, Vladimir Chernov, Henri Demarquette, Caroline Dumas, Marie-Catherine Girod, Anssi Karttunen, Pierre Lénert, David Lively, Jean-Marc Luisada, Roselyne Masset-Lecocq, Patrick Messina, Daniel Ottevaere, Jean-Bernard Pommier, Bruno Rigutto, Eric Tanguy, Beatrice Thiriet, and Ramzi Yassa.[10] Illustrious alumni include cellist Antonio Janigro; composers İlhan Baran, André Boucourechliev, Elliott Carter, Gabriel Cusson, Jacob Druckman, Alain Gagnon, Gérard Grisey, Jacques Hétu, Simeon ten Holt, Leonid Karev, Sophie Lacaze, Bruno Mantovani, Beatrice Siegrist, Gabriel Yared, Zygmunt Mycielski, Ron Nelson, Nick Norton, Michel Perrault, Marcel Poot, Milton Estévez, Arturo Rodas, Joaquín Rodrigo, Rodica Sutzu, Antoni Szalowski, Julien Jalâl Eddine Weiss, Chris Mary Francine Whittle and Margrit Zimmermann; composers-conductors Vítězslava Kaprálová, Timur Selçuk, Selmi Andak; conductors Charles Bruck, Sylvain Cambreling, Aaron Scott; flutist and Minister of culture of Egypt Ines Abdel-Dayem; harpists Rino Kageyama, Susann McDonald; guitarist Rafael Andia; musicologist Richard Hoppin, ethnomusicologist and Philippine National Artist José Maceda; organists Monique Gendron and Victor Togni; pianists Paul Badura-Skoda, Colette Maze, Jean-Paul Billaud, Richard Cass, Halina Czerny-Stefańska, Dino Ciani, Samson François, Ivan Ilić, Karen Keys, Yvonne Lefébure, Dinu Lipatti, Igor Markevitch, Jean Micault, Anilu Romero, Giuseppe Ciaramella-Vito Soranno, Victor Paukstelis, Caroline Haffner, Florence Delaage, Art Simmons, Siheng Song, François Weigel, Congyu Wang; violinist Eric Rosenblith.