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After the [[World War I]], she devoted herself to the teaching and promotion of music: she taught at the [[École Normale de Musique de Paris]], at the Académie Long-Thibaud and at the [[Schola Cantorum de Paris]]. She was a frequent lecturer in many conservatories around the world, working for the Ministry of Foreign Affairs: London, Amsterdam, Rome, Buenos Aires, and many more. She founded the ''Concours international d'interprétation et d'accompagnement'' (International Competition for Interpretation and Accompaniment) in Paris and Netherlands and the ''Académie de Chant et d'Art Lyrique'' (School of Voice and Lyric Arts), both of which bear her name. In Amsterdam, she founded the ''Concours Gabriel Fauré'' (Gabriel Fauré Competition).<ref>{{cite book|title=Handbook on International Study, Volume 2|date=1965|publisher=Institute of International Education|page=258|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=dtlHAQAAIAAJ|accessdate=30 July 2017}}</ref><ref name="Dictionnaire" />
 
In 1948 she was accompanied regularly by the pianist and composer [[Henriëtte Bosmans]] (1895–1952) with whom she formed a duet.<ref>{{cite book|last1=van der Klis|first1=Jolande|title=The Essential Guide to Dutch Music: 100 Composers and Their Work|date=2000|publisher=Amsterdam University Press|page=60|isbn=9789053564608 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=eCUKAQAAMAAJ|accessdate=30 July 2017}}</ref> Bosmans dedicates eleven of her melodies to Pérugia, on texts by Paul Faure. Bosmans was [[Benjamin Britten]] and [[Peter Pears]]'s good friend, and they called her "Jetty"; in March 1942, Pears writes to Britten:{{quote|She is feeling happy now, because some songs she wrote for Noémie Pérugia had a great success 10 days ago, it appears. – Peter Pears.<ref>{{cite book|last1=Britten|first1=Benjamin|title=Letters from a Life Volume 3 (1946–1951): The Selected Letters of Benjamin Britten|date=2011|publisher=Faber & Faber|isbn=9780571279937 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=22OPd1_ISNsC&pg=PT511|accessdate=30 July 2017}}</ref>}}
 
In 1951 the composer [[Maurice Thiriet]] dedicated to Pérugia ''Fleurs'' (Flowers), 6 poems which he put in music according to the texts of Blanche Pierre-Biez. Noémie Pérugia sang them for the first time on May 24, 1951, accompanied on the piano by [[Jean-Yves Daniel-Lesur]].