Manuela Morilleau de Oliveira

Manuela Morilleau de Oliveira was born in Châtellerault (France, 1977) and began his musical studies in early music at the age of seven. She completed the CFEM in chamber music (ENMD d’Angoulême, 1997) and in early music (CNR of Tours, 1998), while she began a DEM in viol, completed in 2002. Apart from the practical activity as a musician in Renaissance, Baroque and contemporary music, in France and Portugal, she lectured Musicianship, History of Music and Acoustics between 2000 and 2009. She obtained a DEUG in Musicology (1998) in the UFR Sciences Humaines – Poitiers (France), graduated in Musicology from the FCSH-UNL (2006), and obtained the Masters degree in Musicology (2012), variant of Historical Musicology, in the same university, with a thesis entitled Women of the Portuguese royal family and music: a preliminary study from 1640 to 1754. In the context of the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (FCSH-UNL) she was, between May 2010 and October 2012, a research fellow in the project “Marcos Portugal: the work and its dissemination”, funded by FCT, in which she developed a work of critical edition of pieces composed by Marcos Portugal to Their Royal Highnesses. Besides, between September and December 2014 she was a research fellow in the project “José Mário Branco’s musical work”, in which she prepared the digitalization and inventory of some of the composer’s scores and papers. Nowadays, she is a Ph.D. candidate in Historical Musicology at the FCSH-UNL, having been awarded a grant by the doctoral program “Music as culture and cognition”, and her research is focused on the domains of the Sociology of Music, Gender Studies, Modern History and Cultural History.