Filipa Magalhães

Filipa Magalhães is a researcher at CESEM – Centre for Music Studies, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH, Lisbon, Portugal. She holds a Ph.D. in Musicology (2020), a Master’s degree in Musical Arts, and a Bachelor’s degree in Musicology from NOVA University Lisbon, as well as a Postgraduate Certificate in Historical Archivistics (2022) from the same institution.

Her research focuses on the preservation of works within the context of music theatre, with particular interest in the intersection of methodologies between musicology, archival sciences and digital humanities for their documentation and study. Her scholarly work has contributed significantly to the field of contemporary Portuguese music preservation, with a special emphasis on the composer Constança Capdeville. She has published extensively in international peer-reviewed journals and edited volumes, exploring Capdeville’s creative processes and her connections to music theatre, film and theatre composition. In August 2022, Magalhães was awarded a junior research position through the 5th edition of the Individual Scientific Employment Stimulus (CEEC), with the project ‘Music Theatre Preservation: A Bridge Between Musicology and Archival Science’, funded by FCT – Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (DOI: 10.54499/2022.07416.CEECIND/CP1725/CT0047).

She currently serves as the Coordinator of the Contemporary Music Research Group (GIMC) at CESEM – NOVA FCSH, and as the Coordinator of Thematic Line 04 – ‘Archives: From Preventive Preservation to Digitalisation’ at IN2PAST – Associate Laboratory for Research and Innovation in Heritage, Arts, Sustainability and Territory (https://in2past.org/thematic-lines/).