Kate van Orden

Kate van Orden (vanorden@fas.harvard.edu) is Dwight P. Robinson Jr. Professor of Music at Harvard University. She specializes in the cultural history of early modern France and Italy, book history, and popular music (mostly sixteenth century, but also in the 1960s). Her latest project is Seachanges: Music in the Mediterranean and Atlantic Worlds, 1550–1800 (I Tatti Research Series, 2022), an edited volume on cultural mobility. Her prize-winning publications include Materialities: Books, Readers, and the Chanson in Sixteenth Century Europe (2015), and Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (2005). Van Orden served as program committee chair for the IMS2022 Congress in Athens and is president of the IMS (2022–27). She also performs on baroque and classical bassoon, with over sixty recordings on Sony, Virgin Classics, and Harmonia Mundi.