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Kate Helsen
Postdoctoral Fellow, History & Culture
Hons B.A. (Western), Hons.B.Mus. (Western), Ph.D. (Regensburg)
e-mail: kate@helsen.org
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Kate Helsen currently holds a 24-month, post-doctoral fellowship from the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada, investigating the transition from neumes to square notation. Her doctoral research at the University of Regensburg, Germany, focused on Gregorian Great Responsory repertories and was completed in 2008 under the supervision of David Hiley. Kate has taught at the University of Regensburg, the University of Toronto and University of Western Ontario at both the undergraduate and graduate level.
Kate actively pursues her own research, publishing recent articles in journals such as Plainsong and Medieval Music, and has given papers at conferences in Hungary, Germany, Switzerland, England, the U.S.A. and Canada. In addition to her research on the changing shape of medieval notation, Kate is investigating the possibilities of automatic neume recognition, in partnership with the computer science department at the University of Western Ontario, and colleagues in Germany and Switzerland.
Maintaining her involvement in other projects, Kate was a language editor for the recent publication of a collection of articles entitled Political Plainchant? Music, Text and Historical Context of Medieval Saints’ Offices, and has undertaken transcriptions of nine saints’ offices for the Irish project, The Liturgical Veneration of Irish Saints in Medieval Europe. She is also a member of an international team of researchers for a Portuguese project entitled, Musical exchanges, 1100 - 1650: The circulation of early music in Europe and oversears in Iberian and Iberian-related sources. As a research assistant with CANTUS since 2004, she has contributed indices for 15 complete antiphoners to that project. At the University of Toronto, she is a researcher for the Becket Project and for Nota Quadrata.
She has been the Assistant English Language Editor of Intersections, Canadian Journal of Music since 2008. In addition to pursuing musicology, Kate has sung with the Tafelmusik Chamber Choir for five years, studied voice extensively, and conducted several church and community choirs.
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