Cláudia Sofia Pinto Sousa

Cláudia Sousa was born in Porto, in 1993. In 2011, she began a degree in Artistic Studies at the Faculty of Letters of the University of Coimbra (2014); she also participated in an Erasmus Exchange Program at the Università degli Studi di Parma (2013-14). She then attended the postgraduate degree in Artistic Studies in Coimbra, having chosen Historical Musicology. She has recently graduated, at the Aveiro University (2019), Master’s in Music teaching, specializing in History of Music. Meanwhile, in 2018, she started teaching in Portalegre, where she got to know the Portalegre’s unique tapestry. In the summer of 2019 she participated in the NOVA FCSH Summer School in the course of “Museology and Music (2nd edition) – Musical Artistic Heritage of Portuguese Museums” where since then she has been dedicated to research in the areas of Musical Iconography and Organology with special incidence in Music in the Portuguese tapestry and Portugal. She collaborates with NOVA FCSH/CESEM in the Study Group for Music Iconography.