Ivana Rentsch (born in 1974) is a Swiss musicologist and teacher at the University of Hamburg.
Born in Olten,[1] Rentsch studied musicology, media and linguistics at the University of Zürich.
In 2005 she was granted a research scholarship at the Austrian universities of Graz and Salzburg for the project Dance in Score (Swiss National Science Foundation).
At the same time, she held teaching positions at the universities of Basel, Bern, Fribourg and Graz.
Rentsch is co-editor of the journal Die Musikforschung and member of the scientific advisory board of both Bohuslav Martinů Complete Edition (Bohuslav Martinů Stiftung Prag, Bärenreiter-Verlag), as well as that of the Recherche sur la musique française XVIIe-XVIIIe siècles.