The board of experts allows the coming together of specialists in the field of research, music and the arts. One of the ambitions is to enable multidisciplinary work between the best researchers and musicologists, and to encourage reflection on the practical musical application of this research.
The group, formed in 2005 around seminar-meetings, will continue its work in 2006 by means of  meetings approximately every six weeks, taking the form of discussions open to the public as well as more in-depth debate between researchers.

The board of experts

Violaine ANGER

Musicologist and senior lecturer at the University of Evry, responsible for courses at the Ecole Polytechnique entitled ‘Discovery of Opera'. She works on the relationship between text and music in the 19th century.

Françoise MEYER

Psychoanalyst and an active amateur in opera and theatre. The voice is a passion which not only influences her leisure time but also her clinical practice, notably with autistic children. In 1998 she created an association named ‘psychoanalysis and culture', with the aim of encouraging a meeting of these two areas. In 1999 she initiated study days followed by a recital, ‘When the voice takes shape', where actors, singers, producers and psychoanalysts could come together.

Marianne MASSIN

Philosopher and former student of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, holder of the agrégation (advanced teaching qualification) and a Doctorate in philosophy whose thesis was ‘Les Figures du ravissement. Enjeux philosophiques et esthétiques' (EHESS, 1999). She is currently a senior lecturer at the University of Rennes 2. She carries out research into the complex links which unite philosophy and aesthetics, and a re-examination of the notion of inspiration.

Bruno MOYSAN

Musicologist, holder of the agrégation (advanced teaching qualification) in music and Doctor of musicology, author of a thesis on the fantasies of Liszt ‘La réécriture dans les fantaisies de Liszt sur des thèmes d'opéra' - Musique, sémantique, société, 2000. He teaches at the Lycée Marceau in Chartres and at Sciences-Po (Paris) since 1998. He conducts seminars at the EHESS and is a member of the examining boards of the CNSM and the agrégation. He carries out research in various domains, including compositional devices such as the use of themes, quotation and narrative, music under the July Monarchy, music and social sciences, music, politics and secularisation, the philosophy of education and the teaching of music.

Pierre KUENTZ

Director and currently associate artist with the Ambronay Cultural Encounter Centre. He has been an active participant in several Baroque Academies, and is responsible for the production of the 2006 Academy. He has also contributed regularly as a dramatist, particularly in collaboration with the director Ludovic Lagarde, in productions such as Purcell's The Fairy Queen (at the Paris Conservatoire), Orphée et Eurydice (Opéra de Lausanne), and Vénus et Adonis by Desmarest at the Opéra de Nancy in March 2006.

Marion AUBREE

An anthropologist specialising for more than twenty years in the study of diverse urban religious communities, in particular in Brazil. She works at the Centre for Research on contemporary Brazil at the EHESS and contributes to the Revue du Brésil Contemporain. She has also published numerous articles in her role at the Centre d'Etudes Interdisciplinarité des Faits Religieux.

Dates of meetings and publications

Seminar-meeting:

Ambronay's journals & articles:
Music and the Sacred: Trance, Rapture, Ecstasy
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