Jean-Paul Montagnier

Jean-Paul C. Montagnier (born September 28, 1965, at Lyon) is a French musicologist. He studied at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he received two first prizes in musical analysis (1988, professor: Claude Ballif) and music history (1989, professors: Yves Gérard, and Bernard Gagnepain), before completing a PhD at Duke University under the supervision of Professor Peter Williams (1994). He is currently Professor of musicology at the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France), and Associate Member of the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (CNRS). He also was adjunct professor at McGill University (2007–2017). He was involved with Musica Gallica, an edition of the works of the musical patrimony of France (2000–2017). He was the secretary of the research program "Musical Life in Europe, 1600-1900: Circulation, Institutions, Representation" supported by the European Science Foundation (1998–2002), and the secretary (1994–2004), then the editor (2004) of the Revue de musicologie. He was a member of the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Music published by Cambridge University Press (2002–2013). He currently serves on the editorial board of the Collected Works of Jean-Baptiste Lully published by Olms (Germany), and on the editorial board of the Revue belge de musicologie. He was made Officer in the Order of Arts and Letters by the French Government in 2012, and Chevalier in the Ordre National du Mérite in 2021. He was nominated to become a Robert M. Trotter Visiting Distinguished Professor at the University of Oregon School of Music and Dance during the 2018–2019 academic year.