KATE VAN ORDEN (bassoon) studied modern bassoon at Sweelinck Conservatorium in Amsterdam and baroque bassoon at the Koninklijk Conservatorium in The Hague, beginning her performing and recording career on period instruments with European ensembles including Les Arts Florissants, La Petite Bande, and La Chapelle Royale. In America she has performed regularly with American Bach Soloists, Tafelmusik, Handel and Haydn Society, Boston Baroque, and Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra. She also studies the French Renaissance and is a professor in the Music Department at the University of California, Berkeley. She has recently completed a book titled Music, Discipline, and Arms in Early Modern France (University of Chicago Press, 2005), as part of her research for which she reconstructed an equestrian ballet from 1612 and directed its performance ("Le Carrousel du Roi") in the Berkeley Festival of Early Music, 2000 and 2002. The book just received the Lewis Lockwood Book Prize from the American Musicological Society.