Jean-Philippe ÉCHARD
Conservateur.ice
Affiliation entity
ECR
Contact
E-mail
jpechard [at] cite-musique.fr
Phone
01 44 84 89 52
Address(es)
221 avenue Jean-Jaurès
75019 Paris
Responsibilities inside unit
ECR staff representative on the Unit Council
Responsibilities outside unit
Board member of the IC International Committee for Musical Instrument Museums and Collections (CIMCIM)
Collections
Curator in charge of bowed and plucked string instruments, as well as instrument-making workshop collections at the Musée de la musique (Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris)
Presentation
Jean-Philippe Échard has been curator in charge of string instruments (rubbed and plucked - lutherie) at the Musée de la musique (Cité de la musique - Philharmonie de Paris) since 2014.
His research in organology is rooted in cultural, social, economic, material and technical history, as part of the Museum’s Conservation Research Team and the Conservation Research Center (CRC, USR 3224, CNRS, MCC, MNHN).
A research engineer at the Musée de la Musique de Paris laboratory from 1999 to 2013, his work focused on identifying the materials making up the instruments in heritage collections, their evolution over time and their conservation. Trained as a chemist with an engineering degree from the École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris (1998), and a doctorate (2010, Muséum National d’Histoire Naturelle, Paris), Jean-Philippe Échard also studied musical acoustics at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris, and underwent research training at the Conservation Department of the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC, in 2004-2005.
Publications
2023
- , November 2023 — « Talking about damages, a museum perspective » in Hands-on Workshop on the Safe Analysis of Heritage Objects and Materials Using Novel Accelerator-based Analytical Techniques.. , ,
- , September 2023 — « Investigation Of Bracings Transformations On Voboam Guitars: What Can Uncalibrated FEM Models Tell Us? » in Forum Acusticum 2023.. , ,
- , March 2023 — The Nyckelharpa of the musée de la Musique: An Emblem of the Nineteenth-Century French Interest in Swedish Musical Culture. Galpin Society Journal vol. 76, , 220-223, 248-262
- , January 2023 — « Le projet “ techniques de vernissage d’instruments de musique XVIe–XVIIIe s. ” comme point de départ de réflexions sur les méthodologies de recherche » in Atelier “ Concordance et discordance documentaires : des gestes, des textes et de la matière aux époques médiévale et moderne ”.. , ,
2022
- , April 2022 — « Les violons de Crémone à la cour des derniers Valois » in La Cour en fête dans l’Europe des Valois.. , , p. 221-235
- , April 2022 — Stradivarius et la lutherie de Crémone. , ,
- , April 2022 — « La musique dans la Tenture des Fêtes des Valois » in La Tenture des Fêtes des Valois – Tisser les fêtes de Catherine de Médicis.. , , p. 63-67
2021
- , December 2021 — Identifying Medieval Fragments in Three Musical Instruments Made by Antonio Stradivari. Fragmentology vol. 4, ,
- , March 2021 — « Towards digital reconstruction of lost signs borne by heritage artefacts using chemical imaging: the case of 16th-c. violins and luthiers’ tools » in Digital Approaches to Art History and Cultural Heritage.. , ,
2020
- , December 2020 — Revealing lost 16th-century royal emblems on two Andrea Amati’s violins using XRF scanning. Heritage Science vol. 8, n° 112,