Kate van Orden
Kate van Orden is an American musicologist and bassoonist, currently Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. She worked at the University of California, Berkeley, from 1997 until moving to Harvard in 2013. She was editor-in-chief of the Journal of the American Musicological Society from 2008 to 2010, and currently serves on the editorial boards of Early Music History, Saggiatore Musicale, Oxford Bibliographies, and The New Cultural History of Music. Her principal research interest is the French chanson, on which she has written two books.Education
Van Orden obtained a Ph.D. in Music History and Theory from the University of Chicago in 1996.As author
- Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France
- Music, Authorship, and the Book in the First Century of Print
- Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in 16th-Century Europe
As editor
- Music and the Cultures of Print, edited and with an introduction by Kate van Orden, afterword by Roger Chartier
Discography (on historical bassoons)
Van Orden has made numerous recordings with Les Arts Florissants, Collegium Vocale Ghent, Anima Aeterna, La Petite Bande, Tafelmusik, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra, and American Bach Soloists.
