Ana María Ochoa

Ana María Ochoa Gautier (born 9 October 1962) is a Colombian ethnomusicologist. A 2007 Guggenheim Fellow, she researches Latin American music – her works including Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta and Aurality: Listening and Knowledge in Nineteenth-Century Colombia (2014) – and has worked as professor at Columbia University and Tulane University.

Biography Ana María Ochoa Gautier was born on 9 October 1962 in Medellín. She obtained her BM (1987) at the University of British Columbia, before obtaining her MA (1993) and PhD, (Although her Tulane profile dates her PhD to 1993, She later worked as a researcher at the music archives of the Ministry of Culture (1997–1999), Colombian Institute of Anthropology and History (1999–2001), and ; (2001–2002).)

Ochoa's ethnomusicological research is centered on Latin American music. In 2007, she was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship, and she and Martha Ulhôa co-edited the volume Música Popular na America Latina: Pontos de Escuta . At Tulane, she was the 2016 Distinguished Greenleaf Scholar in Residence Award and the 2022 Monroe Fellow.