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The American Conservatory of Paris offers after-school private music lessons at any of the three campuses at ISP for students in Grades 1-12.
Instruments offered: piano, violin, viola, cello, double bass, guitar, flute, oboe, clarinet, saxophone, bassoon, trumpet, trombone, drums, djembe and voice.
At the Primary School, lessons are 30 or 45 minutes for beginners, and 1 hour for students entering at least their 3rd year of study.
At the Secondary School, lessons are 45 minutes or 1 hour.
Group ensembles and music theory classes take place at the Middle School campus with their Saturday Conservatory programme.
Students will be offered two performing opportunities as well as the chance to take the non-mandatory Associated Board of the Royal School of Music Exams (ABRSM).
For more information, please visit www.americanconservatoryofparis.com/class/isp.
Creative Writing at ISP
During the spring semester of 2024, students in ISP's Creative Writing ECA worked with Noah Weisz to complete an ambitious collaborative creative writing project, a 40-page murder-mystery novella entitled “Hydrangeas Painted Red.”
Read the overview below ... then read the whole novella!
In the story, the members of the Zullo family—owners of a shady business that trades in exotic plants and animals—have all gathered at the beautiful Villa Luminosa off the coast of Italy for their annual Halloween costume party. But many of the Zullos are keeping secrets. Soon, things begin to go wrong. Documents concerning a rare insect vanish from the archive room, and the morning after the party, two people are found dead!
The story—brainstormed, outlined, and written collaboratively by the students of the ISP Creative Writing Workshop over three months—required them to face many tricky creative challenges to make the plot fit together like a puzzle while still allowing the characters to grow. The project also gave them an authentic opportunity to build their collaboration skills. So check out the finished story and match wits with the detectives! Can you follow the clues and uncover the truth?
You can download the novella HERE.
