Michael Burden

Michael Burden, FAHA, (born 14 March 1960) is an Australian musicologist, working in the United Kingdom.

He has also served on the council of the Royal Musical Association and is on the steering committee of the Besterman Centre for the Enlightenment (see Voltaire Foundation), a member of the Project Team for Ballad Operas Online, a trustee of both Répertoire International des Sources Musicales United Kingdom, and the Gerald Coke Handel Foundation; and on the advisory panel of The Oxford Centre for Life Writing.

His research is on the stage music of Purcell, and on aspects of dance and theatre in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries, and includes a catalogue of Metastasio’s operas as performed in London, an edition of Le Ballet de la Nuit: Rothschild B1/16/6 with Jennifer Thorp, and a biographical account of Regina Mingotti’s years in London.

With Jennifer Thorp, he organises the annual Oxford Dance Symposium, which takes place each year at New College.

He is on the editorial boards of the Journal for Eighteenth-Century Studies, and the series 'Studies in British Musical Cultures' published by Clemson University Press.