Jean-Paul C. Montagnier

He is currently Professor of musicology at the University of Lorraine (Nancy, France),[1] and Associate Member of the Institut de Recherche en Musicologie (CNRS).

He was a member of the editorial board of Eighteenth-Century Music published by Cambridge University Press (2002-2013).

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.

He specializes in the sacred music of the French Baroque, and has extensively published in numerous international journals.