Bart van Oort studied piano and fortepiano at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague. In 1986 he won the first prize and the Audience prize

at the International Fortepiano Competition in Brugges, Belgium, and he subsequently studied with Malcolm Bilson at Cornell University (USA), receiving a Doctor of Musical Arts degree in Historical Performance Practice in 1993. He has given lectures and masterclasses and performed all over the world, most recently in New York (Juilliard), Lincoln, Ann Arbor, Wellington, Brisbane, Melbourne, Adelaide, Perth, Stavanger, Bergen, Oslo, Salzburg, Rome, Brno, Kiev, Hong Kong, Dreux, Alessandria, Antwerp, Brussels, Greensboro, Lewisburg, Sydney, Hannover, Perugia, Paris. Bart van Oort teaches fortepiano and is a lecturer in Historical Performance Practice at the Royal Conservatory in The Hague.

Since 1997 Van Oort has made more than fifty recordings of chamber music and solo repertory, including the prize-winning 4-CD box set

The Art of the Nocturne in the Nineteenth Century, the Complete Haydn Piano Trios (10 CDs) with his ensemble the Van Swieten Society, with Malcolm Bilson and five other fortepianists the Complete Beethoven Piano Sonatas and, with four other fortepianists, the Complete Haydn Piano Sonatas. In 2006 Bart van Oort completed a ten-year, 14-CD recording project, the Complete Works for Piano solo and Piano four-hands of Mozart. With The Van Swieten Society various cds were recorded around Beethoven; Carl Maria Von Weber; Mendelssohn,;

and Schubert. Since 2014 cds have appeared with Mozart Piano Concertos K466 and 467; JC Bach Sonatas opus 5 and opus 17; Beethoven Symphonies 3 and 5 in chamber music arrangements by Hummel and Ries; Hummel chamber music works with flute and cello.

To appear early 2016: French Nineteenth Century Nocturnes, on the Spanish label Cantus.