Isabel Pina

Isabel Pina is a musicologist at CESEM – NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, mainly interested in the study of the history of music in Portugal in the 19th and 20th centuries, symphony and opera, music and ideology, nationalism, neoclassicism, musical analysis and semiotics, periodical press and music criticism, themes around which she has been publishing and participating in several national and international congresses. Isabel Pina completed her Masters in Historical Musicology in 2016, with the dissertation «Neoclassicism, nationalism and Latinism in Luís de Freitas Branco, between the decades of 1910 and 1930», and her doctorate thesis in 2022, on the posterity of Luís de Freitas Branco (1890-1955) and the concept of school of composition, especially from Freitas Branco’s influence on the theorical and compositional production of two of his pupils, from different generations: Fernando Lopes-Graça (1906-1994) and Joly Braga Santos( (1924-1988). At the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM), Isabel is a member of the Critical Theory and Communication Group, collaborator of SociMus (Advanced Studies in Sociology of Music) and of the Opera Studies Research Cluster, and one of the founders and coordinators of the Research Cluster on Music in the Press.