Yves Balmer

Yves Balmer is professor of musical analysis at the Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse de Paris, editor-in-chief of the Revue de musicologie (Paris, Société française de musicologie), and permanent member of the Institut de recherche en musicologie (IReMus, UMR 8223). A former student of the Paris Conservatory (with six prizes and two certificates of aptitude) and of the University of Lille 3 (doctorate, agrégation), he taught for ten years at the École normale supérieure de Lyon. His work, mainly on music in France in the 20th century, studied in multiple directions starting with the central figure of Olivier Messiaen, has been published in the Journal of the American Musicological Society, Twentieth-Century Music, Relations internationales, Revue de musicologie, Musicalia : Annuario Internazionale di Studi Musicologici, as well as in some twenty collective books. He has published with Hervé Lacombe Cent ans de musicologie en France: histoire intellectuelle de la Revue de musicologie (vol. 1 : Structuration nationale et interactions internationales, Revue de musicologie, 103/2, 2017 ; vol. 2 : Mutations thématiques et évolutions méthodologiques, Revue de musicologie, 104/1, 2018), with Thomas Lacôte and Jean-Clair Vançon Résonances polyphoniques : hommage à Michaël Levinas (Paris: CREC, 2015), with Emmanuel Reibel, Michèle Reverdy, compositrice intranquille (Paris : Vrin, 2014).