Maria José Artiaga

Maria José Artiaga did her undergraduate and master’s degrees in Musicology with the dissertation “The discipline of choral singing in the Estado Novo period: a contribution to the history of music education in Portugal”, at Nova University Lisbon. She attended the Freie Universität in Berlin for a year as an Erasmus student. She did her PhD in Musicology at Royal Holloway, University of London, with the thesis “Continuity and Change in Three Decades of Portuguese Musical Life 1870 – 1900”. She was a coordinating teacher at the Lisbon Polytechnic Institute’s School of Education in the Music Community course. At the same School she was chair of the Languages and Arts Department. She was president of the Portuguese Society for Research in Music (SPIM) from 2015-2021. She currently belongs to CESEM’s “Music in the Modern Period” research line. Her research and publications have focused on the second half of the 19th century and the Estado Novo period. She has taken part in the following FCT-funded projects: “Theater of Laughter”: Musical Comedy in Portuguese-speaking Theaters (1849-1900) , “Music in-between: the ‘orfeónico’ movement and the choral singing in Portugal (1880-2012), “Euterpe unveiled: Women in Portuguese musical creation and interpretation during the 20th and 21st centuries” and “To be a musician in Portugal: the social and professional condition of musicians in Lisbon (1750-1985)”.