Otto Mayer-Serra Prize 2024 I Juliana Wady (CTC) wins 2nd prize

Juliana Wady (Research Group for the Study of Music, Critical Theory and Communication) won the 2nd prize in the Otto Mayer-Serra 2024 competition with “Uma história por trás do discurso: música portuguesa no acervo de Mário de Andrade”. This competition aims to honour the best unpublished essays on Iberian and Latin American music.

In addition to Juliana Wady’s submission, other works were recognised by the jury: “Mecanismos intertextuais no primeiro volume da Escola de canto de orgão (1759) de Caetano de Mello de Jesus: uma proposta de leitura crítica aplicada em dois estudos de caso”, by Carlos Cascarelli Iafelice (Università di Pavia), who won the 1st prize; and “Haciendo música moderna en la Alemania nazi. La experiencia migratoria de la compositora chilena Carmela Mackenna Subercaseaux revisada a través del estudio de Musique pour deux pianos (1936)”, by Constanza Arraño Astete (Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile), which was awarded with an honourable mention.