The Musica Monialium Symposium is one of the initiatives of the AVEMUS project – Music in concertato style at the Monastery of São Bento da Avé-Maria in Porto (1775-1829). Funded by the FCT and carried out within the institutional framework of CESEM – FCSH, UNL, the symposium aims to present to the scientific community and the general public some of the results from the various lines of research that make up the project. These include the transcription, critical edition, and publication of musical scores from the former monastery, as well as the study of pre-compositional models, musical influences, historical performance practices, and the vocal specificities of the nuns and female musicians who lived in the influential Benedictine convent in Porto.