François de Médicis is a professor at the Université de Montreal. His research interests centre on French and Russian music from the first third of the twentieth century (Debussy, Milhaud, Scriabin and Stravinsky). He is a member of the editorial committee for the critical edition of the works of Saint-Saëns with Bärenreiter, French editor of Intersections (2006–2009), he has co-edited the bookMusique et modernité en France, 1900 à 1945 (2006), published articles in Acta Musicologica, Music & Letters, Il Saggiatore musicale, Intersections, STM-Online, l'Enciclopedia della musica(Einaudi), and in collections of articles published by Vrin, the Sorbonne, l'Harmattan, and Presses de l'Université de Montréal.