She went on to compose original scores for Broadway productions including True West, Boeing-Boeing and La Bete, as well as adaptations of Shakespeare’s Twelth Night and Richard IIII.
After training at the Royal College of Music in London, where she studied music theory and piano, van Kampen joined the Royal Shakespeare Company in 1986.
She joined the Royal National Theatre the following year, and went on to serve as an artistic associate to Sir Mark at Shakespeare’s Globe theatre in the capital.
Most recently, van Kampen was Globe associate and senior research fellow for early modern music at the Globe, as well as a creative associate at the Old Vic Theatre in London.
She also worked as a Tudor music advisor and arrange for the BBC television series Wolf Hall.
Van Kampen had two daughters with her previous husband, architect Christopher van Kampen.
Her daughter Nataasha, a filmmaker, died aged 28 in 2012 after suffering a brain haemorrhage.
