Max Noubel is an associate professor at the University of Burgundy and an affiliated researcher at the CRAL/EHESS in Paris. Specializing in 20th-century music, he works more specifically on musical theories and American music. He has published numerous articles, notably on Charles Ives, Henry Cowell, Aaron Copland, Elliott Carter, Steve Reich, Leonard Bernstein, John Adams. His book Elliott Carter, ou le temps fertile, prefaced by Pierre Boulez, won the Prix des Muses in 2001. He has organized several international colloquia, including Des ponts vers l’Amérique I, II and III (Paris, 2006 ; 2008 and 2013) and The René Leibowitz International Conference (Paris 2013). In 2009, in Munich, he contributed to the International Colloquium Crosscurrents: American and European Music in Interaction, 1900-2000 and he lectured in Roma at the International Colloquium Heitor Villa-Lobos e l’Europa. In 2010, he presented a paper at the International Congress of Musical Signification (ICMS XI) in Krakow. In 2011 and 2012, he lectured in Bologna at the XV and XVI Conference of Musicology. In 2014, he contributed to the International Conference Musica Practices - Continuity and Transition in Belgrade. In 2015, he lectured at the International Conference Postmodernity’s Musical Pasts : Rediscoveries and Revivals after 1945 in New York, USA, and at the International Conference Tyranny and Music at the Middle Tennessee State University, USA. In 2016, Max Noubel participated in the XIII International Conference on Musical Signification at the Canterbury Christ Church University, UK. In June 2017, he will give a paper at the Sixth International Conference on Music and Minimalism in Knoxville, Tennessee.