Dr Rachel Orzech is Honorary Fellow at the School of Music, University of Queensland and Reviews Editor for Musicology Australia. Her monograph Claiming Wagner for France: Music and Politics in the Parisian Press, 1933-1944 was published by the University of Rochester Press in 2022. She has previously held positions as Lecturer and Research Fellow at the Melbourne Conservatorium of Music, University of Melbourne, and was Editor of Context: Journal of Music Research between 2015 and 2017.
Rachel's current research examines notions of musical nationalism, exchange and internationalism through the lens of the Australian music publisher Louise Dyer and her Paris-based press Les Editions de l’Oiseau-Lyre. She is currently editing two special issues related to this research for the Journal of Musicological Research (co-edited with John Gabriel and Paul Watt) and Musicology Australia.