Henk Borgdorff (1954) is an Amsterdam-based academic, specialised in music theory and artistic research.
He studied music theory at the Royal Conservatory of The Hague (1977-1983) and philosophy and sociology at Leiden University (1978-1982).
He graduated in The Hague in 1983 with a thesis on the philosophy of music of Theodor W. Adorno and obtained his PhD at Leiden University in 2012.
Together with Jeroen Boomgaard (Rietveld Academy) he founded the Artistic Research master programme at the University of Amsterdam, and together with Peter Dejans (Orpheus Institute, Ghent) and Frans de Ruiter (Royal Conservatory of The Hague) he established the doctoral programme in music, docARTES.
He served as editor of JAR from 2010 to 2015, co-founded the Research Catalogue[6] in 2011, acted as president of SAR from 2015 to 2019.