Julien Dubruque is an alumnus of the École normale supérieure, an agrégé de l’Université, and has a Ph.D in music from the François Rabelais University of Tours. He studied harpsichord and basso continuo at the Boulogne-Billancourt Conservatoire, and aesthetics at the Paris Conservatoire. He teaches Latin and Greek in literary and humanities classes préparatoires at the Lycée Henri-IV in Paris. He is also a researcher and an editor at the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles, where he has published more than thirty critical editions, and supervises the Digital opera (“Opéra numérique”) and the Aria anthologies (“Recueils d’airs”) series. He is a contributing editor in the Opera Omnia Rameau (Bärenreiter), of which he is assistant editor, in the Édition Numérique, Critique et Collaborative de l’Encyclopédie (ENCCRE), in Voltaire’s Complete Theater and in Rousseau’s Complete Works at Classiques Garnier.

Thomas Leconte works as researcher and editorial manager in the CMBV Research Department (CESR, UMR 7323). His focus is on the historical and musical aspects of 17th century French salon music and early grands motets under Louis X1V (1643-1682). He has produced many publications on the subject. He also has a special interest in 17th and 18th century French provincial religious music and in the musical repertoires and practices of extraordinary ceremonies at the French court.