Marie Verstraete


Project team “Motet Cycles ”


Marie Verstraete (Belgium, 1986) studied recorder, vielle, renaissance viol and medieval music in Leuven, Trossingen and Basel as well as musicology in Trossingen. In 2013 the German Historical Institute in Rome granted her a research fellowship for her PhD project on mass ordinaries in late fifteenth-century Milan, which she is currently working on under supervision of Prof. Dr. Klaus Pietschmann at the Johannes-Gutenberg Universität Mainz. Her research interests include polyphonic sacred music up to 1600, Pre-Tridentine liturgy and performance practice.