Kate van Orden

Kate van Orden is Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural history of early modern France, Italy, and the Mediterranean. Her current research investigates music and cultural mobility, and she is editor of Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Colonial Worlds, 1550-1800, forthcoming in I Tatti Studies. Her prize-winning publications include Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in 16th-c. Europe (Oxford, 2015), Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (Chicago, 2005), and articles in Renaissance Quarterly and Early Music History. She currently serves as Editor-in-Chief of Oxford Bibliographies of Music. Among her recent awards are a French Medaille d’Honneur for her contributions to Renaissance studies (2016) and a Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship (2017-18). She is also a professional performer on the baroque and classical bassoon and can be heard on over 60 recordings on Sony, Virgin Classics, Harmonia Mundi, and other labels.