Ana Carvalho Gaunt

Ana Delfina Gaunt (née Sá Carvalho) is a colaborator in CESEM in the Group of Studies of Early Music. She concluded her undergraduate degree in Musicology in 2007 in Universidade Nova de Lisboa. From the same university she obtained her Master’s degree in 2012, under the supervision of Manuel Pedro Ferreira, with a dissertation on the polyphonic codex of the monastery of Arouca. From 2010 to 2012 she was a grant holder in the project “Musical Exchanges 1100-16050: The circulation of early music in Europe and overseas”. Having been funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e Tecnologia, she undertook her doctoral studies in the University of Oxford, under the supervision of Owen Rees. Her DPhil dissertation focuses on polyphonic Vespers in Iberian religious institutions during the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries.

She has several entries of manuscript descriptions in the Portuguese Early Music database. She published in the Portuguese Journal of Musicology, and authored a chapter in the book Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian Connections where she was also editing assistant. She translated into Portuguese Tess Knighton’s introductory study to the modern edition of Arte para Tanger (Lisboa, 1540) by Gonçalo de Baena. She wrote the CD notes to two recordings of Bruno Monteiro and João Paulo Santos, namely Szymanovsky: complete music for violin and piano e Schulhoff: music for violin and piano.

She was assistant lecturer of Organology, Music History (Antiquity to 1600) and Musical Analysis (Antiquity to 1600) in Universidade do Minho between 2007 and 2011. She was a teacher of Acoustics and Music History and a deputy headteacher at Academia de Música de Santa Maria da Feira between 2009 and 2014. Her main research interests are sacred polyphonic music in Iberian sources of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries, their codicological study, determination of liturgical tradition and their musical edition.