Leading French Musicologist Advances Digital Humanities and Baroque Music Research
Dr. Achille (Cécile) Davy-Rigaux stands as a prominent figure in French musicology, serving as Director of Research at CNRS-IReMus and President of the Société française de Musicologie. With an impressive academic background including prizes from the Paris Conservatoire in Music History, Musicology, and Musical Aesthetics, as well as expertise in Musical Analysis and Oboe performance, Davy-Rigaux has significantly influenced multiple areas of musicological research. As former director of both the Institut de recherche en musicologie (IReMus) and the Collegium Musicæ at Sorbonne Université, their work spans critical editions (notably Rameau's opera omnia), digital musicology (including the NEUMA digital score library), and research on plainchant and church music of the Baroque era. They coordinate the Épistémuse network of Francophone musicologies and co-direct two prestigious Brepols publication series (ELSEM and MSRI), while actively contributing to the development of digital humanities in musicology through various innovative projects and databases, including the MUSEFREM project and the Sequentia database for ecclesiastical chant research