Luís Correia de Sousa

He studied double bass at the Lisbon National Conservatoire and the Academia de Amadores de Música. He has divided his professional activity between practical music and research, especially in the field of Musical Iconography. He has a degree in Musical Sciences from Universidade Nova de Lisboa and a PhD in Art History – Medieval, with the project Speculum Musicae – Musical Iconography in Late Medieval Art in Portugal. He is a researcher at CESEM (Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics) and IEM (Institute of Medieval Studies) of the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities of Universidade Nova de Lisboa. As part of CESEM’s activities, he took part in the Images of Music project, under the coordination of Tilman Seebass. In 2010, she organised the 1st International Course on Musical Iconography. She has been working in the field of medieval iconography, especially musical iconography, and is a founding member of the Study Group for Musical Iconography of the International Musicological Society, created in June 2006. In recent years he has been working mainly in the area of medieval illumination, having completed a post-doctoral project centred on the study of 13th century portable Bibles in Portuguese libraries and archives.