Classes are held at The Ecole Normale de Musique. The School was founded in 1919 by the legendary pianist Alfred Cortot and his partner Auguste Mangeot. Its history includes such musical luminaries as Nadia Boulanger, Pablo Casals, Paul Dukas, Arthur Honegger, Wanda Landowska, Dinu Lipatti, Samson François, and Igor Markevitch.
The concert hall, Salle Cortot, is an achitectural and acoustic masterpiece. Cortot is known to have said that, "it sounds like a Stradivarious."
The building itself is of the Belle Epoque, is registered as an "Historical Landmark" and is located in the heart of Paris.