Jean-Pierre Ouvrard (16 February 1948 in Trémentines (Maine-et-Loire) – 13 November 1992 in Tours (Indre-et-Loire)) was a French musicologist, music educator, researcher at the François Rabelais University and choral conductor.
Originally from Anjou and after literary studies at the University of Angers, Jean-Pierre Ouvrard became Tourangeau to satisfy his "bound" passions for music and the Renaissance.
In November 1973, he founded the university ensemble of early music whose first auditions took place the following month and the first concert, 25 April 1974, in the Amphitheatre of the Faculty of Letters of Tours.
An intense activity of dissemination and animation of the heritage opened up in parallel with the university research that he carried out to feed them from this confrontation with the reality of interpretation.
Despite the significant share of the "Ensemble Jacques Moderne"[2] in his professional activity, Jean-Pierre Ouvrard pursues a brilliant career as a musicologist.