Svetlana Poliakova

Svetlana Poliakova graduated from the Moscow Tchaikovsky State Conservatoire, and holds a PhD from the Universidade Nova of Lisbon. Since 2008 she has taught auditory training and theory, techniques of composition, theory and practice in the music of the Byzantine rite, theory and analysis of Western Medieval Music, and theory and practice of basso continuo at the same University, in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, Department of Musicology. Since 2004 she has been a researcher at CESEM (Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities), Universidade Nova of Lisbon. Founder and director of the Academic Choir Romanos Mélodos, FCSH, and director of the Pravoslava Chamber Choir.