It will also be the 200th anniversary of the opening of the Prague Conservatoire.

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The British Council in Egypt called the Cairo Conservatoire, who suggested Marcellino Safwat, a 17-year-old cellist with ambitions to become a conductor.

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Instead, he studied organ and composition at the Paris Conservatoire, where his reputation fostered his meeting and subsequent close friendship with Franz Liszt.

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An outspoken defender of the ocean, she is also vice-president of the Conservatoire national du littoral in France, and president of the Maud Fontenoy Foundation.

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It will close with a performance by the Junior Conservatoire Orchestra.

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At age 12 he met French composer Olivier Messiaen, and later he championed the composer's music and studied with his wife, Yvonne Loriod, at the Paris Conservatoire.

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She will work closely with musicians from two of the country's leading youth music organisations, the National Youth Orchestras of Scotland and the Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, in sessions - many of which will be open to the public over that weekend.

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