Conservatory of Nice
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The Conservatoire à Rayonnement Régional de Nice (C.R.R. de Nice) is the regional music and dance conservatory for Nice
, founded in 1916.
Nice
Nice is the fifth most populous city in France, after Paris, Marseille, Lyon and Toulouse, with a population of 348,721 within its administrative limits on a land area of . The urban area of Nice extends beyond the administrative city limits with a population of more than 955,000 on an area of...
, founded in 1916.
Alumni
- Maurice JaubertMaurice JaubertMaurice Jaubert was a French composer of incidental music for stage and film music, famous for his collaborations with the masters of poetic realism Jean Vigo, René Clair, Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné...
(1900–1940) composer of film music. - Claude BollingClaude BollingClaude Bolling , is a renowned French jazz pianist, composer, arranger, and occasional actor.He was born in Cannes, studied at the Nice Conservatory, then in Paris. A child prodigy, by age 14 he was playing jazz piano professionally, with Lionel Hampton, Roy Eldridge, and Kenny Clarke...
, (b.1930) French jazz pianist. - Christian FerrasChristian FerrasChristian Ferras was a French violinist.Ferras was born at Le Touquet in 1933. He began studying the violin with his father, who was a pupil of Marcel Chailley. He entered the Conservatoire de Nice as a student of Charles Bistesi in 1941, and in 1943 obtained the First Prize. In 1944 he went to...
(1933–1982), violinist. - Jean-Jacques KantorowJean-Jacques KantorowJean-Jacques Kantorow is a French violin virtuoso and conductor.-Biography:Kantorow was born in Cannes, France. From the age of 13 he studied at the Paris Conservatoire with René Benedetti, and in 1960 won the first violin prize...
(b.1945), French violinist. - Scott Ross (1951–1989), American harpsichordist.
- Gilbert BezzinaGilbert BezzinaGilbert Bezzina is a French violinist and conductor of baroque opera.Gilbert Bezzina studied violin at the Conservatory of Nice and continues to perform and record as a violinist....
, violinist and opera conductor. - Bruno Ferrandis, conductor
- Bernard Paganotti, electric bass guitar.
- Marie-Josèphe Jude (b.1968), pianist.
- Philippe Bianconi, pianist.
- David Zambon, tuba.
- Catherine Schneider, pianist.
- Isabelle Perrin, French harpist.
- Dominic Derasse, trumpeter.
- Bidu SayãoBidu SayãoBidú Sayão was a Brazilian opera soprano. One of Brazil's most famous musicians, Sayão was a leading artist of the Metropolitan Opera in New York City from 1937 to 1952.-Life and career:...
, Brazilian soprano, studied with Jean de ReszkeJean de ReszkeJean de Reszke, born Jan Mieczyslaw, , was a Polish tenor. Renowned internationally for the high quality of his singing and the elegance of his bearing, he became the biggest male opera star of the late 19th century....
in Nice but was not a student of the conservatory.