VISITING FELLOWS
2025
Richard Freedman
Professor, Department of Music, Haverford College
Le Studium Visiting Researcher (January-May 2025)
Musicology in a Digital age
2024-2025
Carlo Bosi
Mozarteum University & Paris Lodron University of Salzburg
Le Studium / FIAS Research Fellowship (October 2024-July 2025)
The “Chansonnier de Bayeux”: An Early 16th-Century Monophonic Source and its Polyphonic Relatives
John Cooper
Professor, Department of History, University of York
Le Studium Research Fellow (September 2024-January 2025)
Royal Journeys, Palaces and Pageantry in England and France (1460-1589): Establishing a Comparative and Multidisciplinary Methodology
2024
Vilena Vrbanić
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
CNRS Researcher Engineer — analysis of historical sources (September-December 2024)
Tablatures project
Javier Marín López
Professor, University of Jaén
Visiting Professor, University of Tours (March-April 2024)
Francisco López Capillas and the Quadruple Mass for the Dedication of the Cathedral of Mexico (1656): Towards an Aural Recreation
Lorenzo Tunesi
Ph.D., Department of Music, Stanford University
Chateaubriand Fellowship in Humanities and Social Sciences (February-May 2024)
Research interests include late medieval and renaissance music in Italy and France
2023
Guillaume Avocat
Researcher associate, CRIHAM, Poitiers
CNRS Research Engineer (analysis of historical sources)
Anne-Sophie Haillot
Grant Holder Manager COST Earlymuse
Michael Justin O’Connor
Professor, University of South Australia
Visiting Professor, University of Tours (May-July 2023)
Expert of cultural economy theory, research and projects
Eugeen Schreurs
Professor, Royal Conservatoire Antwerpen (Belgium)
Le Studium Research Fellow (January-July 2023)
Music, Performance and Context: The Collegiate Church of our Lady in Antwerp in a European and Multidisciplinary Perspective (c. 1352-1566)
2022-2024
Alexander Robinson
Research associate, University of Basel
Marie Curie Research Scholar, University of Tours
AVIGNONMUSIC: Music, Religion and Civic Identity in Renaissance Avignon (c.1500–1630)
2022
Vilena Vrbanić
Academy of Music, University of Zagreb
Ricercar Fellow (October-December 2022)
Tablatures project
Emanuela Vai
Researcher, Worcester College, University of Oxford (Great Britain)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours (June 2022)
Monstruous Materialities: Musical Instruments and the Matter of Renaissance Music
2021
Fabrice Fitch
Composer and Musicologist, Royal Conservatoire of Scotland, Glasgow (Great Britain)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours (October 2021)
La messe Scaramella de Jacob Obrecht : autour d’une reconstruction
2021–2023
Francesca Fantappiè
Department of Languages, Literatures, Cultures and Mediations, University of Milan
Marie Curie Research Scholar, University of Tours
Financing Festivals, Music and Theatre: Real Expenses and Fictional Expenditures in France between the Sixteenth and Seventeenth Centuries
2020–2022
Esperanza Rodriguez Garcia
Department of Music, University of Madrid
Marie Curie Research Scholar, University of Tours
Experiencing Historical Soundscapes: the Royal Entries of Emperor Charles V in Iberian Cities
2020–2021
Eugeen Schreurs
Professor, Royal Conservatoire Antwerpen (Belgium)
Le Studium Fellow
Music in the collegiate church of Our Lady in Antwerp (c.1370 – c.1530): An European hub?
2019–2020
Richard Freedman
Professor of Musicology, Haverford College (U.S.A.)
Le Studium Fellow
The imitative Renaissance masses
2017–2018
Graeme Boone
Professor of Musicology, Ohio State University (U.S.A.)
Le Studium Fellow
Dufay and the emotions
2017
Zhuqing (Lester) Hu
Assistant Professor, University of California Berkeley (U.S.A.)
Chateaubriand Fellow
La musique entre empirisme et occultisme dans la conquête mandchoue de la Chine (c. 1660-1710)
2016 and 2018
Cédric Cossou
Testeur QA chez ProwebCE Edenred (France)
Ricercar Fellow
Musi2R project: Musiques dans les résidences royales
2016
Mathilde Dutertre
Adjointe au chef du service numérisation, BnF (France)
Ricercar Fellow
Musi2R project: Musiques dans les résidences royales
2015–2016
Peter Bennett
Associate Professor, Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland (Canada)
Le Studium Fellow
Musique, liturgie et pouvoir : les entrées royales de Louis XIII à Paris et en province, 1610-1643
2015–2016
Émeline Marot
Responsable d’opération bâti, Atemporelle, Scop (Nouvelle-Aquitaine, France)
LAT and Ricercar Fellow (CITERES/CESR)
ReViSMartin project: Renaissance virtuelle dans la collégiale Saint-Martin de Tours
2015–2016
Javier Pino
Backend developper, Pongo (Paris)
Ricercar Fellow
Music engraving / Music encoding (MEI): Picardy Musical Heritage and Renaissance Music in Croatia
2015
David Dolata
Professor of Musicology, Florida International University (U.S.A.)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
Tablatures project
2014
John Griffiths
Honorary Professor of Musicology, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
Tablatures project
2014
Alberto Napoli
Artistic production office, Theater Orchester Biel Solothurn (TOBS)
Ricercar Fellow
Gesualdo online project
2013–2014
Antoine Tanguy
Developper web, Levio (Canada)
Ricercar Fellow
CUMUSI project: Cubiculum Musicae
ANR project: Music and musicians in the French Saint-Chapels
2013–2014
Magnus Williamson
Professor of Early Music, Newcastle University (Great Britain)
Le Studium Fellow
DIPERMUR: DIspositifs de la PERformance MUsicale à la Renaissance
2013
Fanch Thoraval
Lecturer, Catholic University of Louvain (Belgium)
Ricercar Fellow
ANR project: Music and musicians in the French Saint-Chapels
2012
Dinko Fabris
Professor of Musicology, University of Basilicata (Italy)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
Tablatures project
2012
Stefano Lorenzetti
Professor of Musicology, Conservatorio di Musica di Vicenza (Italy)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
Music and education in the Renaissance Italian courts
2011–2013
Daniel Russo-Batterham
Research Data Specialist, University of Melbourne (Australia)
Ricercar Fellow
Tablatures project
2011–2012
Matteo Giuggioli
Researcher, University of Roma Tre
Research Scholar, University of Tours
Marie Curie Actions Intra-European Fellowships (IEF)
Musical iconography project: Représenter la partition
2011–2012
Patrice Nicolas
Professor of Musicology, University of Moncton (Canada)
Ricercar Fellow
ANR project: Music and musicians in the French Saint-Chapels
2011–2012
Francesco Pezzi
PhD Student, University of Augsburg (Germany)
Ricercar Fellow
European Project on Renaissance Music in Croatia
2011–2012
Philip Weller †
Professor of Musicology, University of Nottingham (Great Britain)
Le Studium Fellow
Fifteenth-century anonymous masses: from the repertoire to the stylistic musical analyses
2010–2019
Marco Gurrieri
CNRS Researcher Engineer, Iremus, Paris (France)
Ricercar Fellow
Projects: Aux confins de l’Humanisme-Monde Slave et Culture méditerranéenne (CHuM, European project), Personae: Personnes, Réseaux de Sociabilité et Nouvelles Approches de l’Espace, Gesualdo Online, Prosopography of Renaissance Singers, Citations: The Renaissance Imitation Masses (CRIM), Patrimoine musical en région Pays de la Loire
2010–2013
Marc Busnel
Professional Singer (France)
Ricercar Fellow
Virtual workshop of polyphonic restitutions (Atelier Virtuel de Restitution Polyphonique–AVRP)
2010–2013
Cristina Cassia
Adjunct, Dipartimento di Studi Umanistici, Università degli Studi di Torino (Italy)
Ricercar Fellow
Projects: Virtual workshop of polyphonic restitutions (Atelier Virtuel de Restitution Polyphonique–AVRP), Music and musicians in the French Saint-Chapels (ANR Project), Gesualdo Online
2009–2010
Gregorio Bevilacqua
AHRC Research Fellow, Southampton University (Great Britain)
Ricercar Fellow
Research project on instrumental music notation (fourteenth-eighteenth centuries)
2009–2010
Yossi Maurey
Professor of Musicology, The Hebrew University of Jerusalem (Israel)
Le Studium Fellow
The apotheosis of St Martin: ritual, music, and cult
2009–2010
Maria Semi
Associate Professor, Department of the Arts, University of Bologna
Ricercar Fellow
Projects on philosophy of music
2009
Laurenz Lütteken
Professor of Musicology, University of Zürich (Switzerland)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
2008–2010
Grantley McDonald
Postdoctoral Research Fellow, University of Oxford (Great Britain)
Le Studium Fellow
Prosopography of Renaissance Singers
2007–2008
Davy Bernagoult
Composer
Ricercar Fellow
Corpus of 15th Century Anonymous Masses (music engraving)
2007–2008
Yoann Bernagoult
Composer
Ricercar Fellow
Corpus of 15th Century Anonymous Masses (music engraving)
2007
Zoe Saunders
PhD Musicologist, University of Maryland (U.S.A.)
Chateaubriand Fellow
Anonymous masses in the Alamire manuscripts: towards a new understanding of a repertoire, an atelier, and a Renaissance court
2006
Giovanni Zanovello
Associate Professor of Music, Indiana University Bloomington (U.S.A.)
Ricercar Fellow
Theory of music
2005–2006
Theodor Dumitrescu
Former Assistant Professor, University of Utrecht (Nederland)
Le Studium Fellow
French royal musicians during the reign of Louis XII (1498–1515)
2003–2005
Kate Van Orden
Professor of Musicology, Harvard University (U.S.A.)
Le Studium Fellow
Materialities. Books, Readers and the chanson in sixteenth-century Europe
2002
Margaret Bent
Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Oxford University (Great Britain)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
2001
Reinhard Strohm
Emeritus Professor of Musicology, Oxford University (Great Britain)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours
1994
Victor Coelho
Professor of Music, Boston University (U.S.A.)
Visiting Professor, University of Tours