Ângela Portela

She has a degree in Music (bachelor’s in piano) and a Master’s in Music (Historical Musicology) from the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, defending her dissertation entitled ‘Women Pianists and Composers in the Aristocratic Salons of Rio de Janeiro from 1870 to 1910’. As a lecturer, she taught in the music programmes at the State University of Rio Grande do Norte (UERN) and later at the Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). As a researcher, she has been dedicated to the historical study of the work of women musicians in Brazil and Portugal, from the 19th to the early 20th century. She is currently on a CAPES/Brazil scholarship as part of the PhD programme in Historical Musical Sciences at the New University of Lisbon (CESEM/UNL), under the supervision of Professor Luísa Cymbron, focusing on the circuit of women musicians between Brazil and Portugal, from 1870 to 1910.