Formação académica/ education

2014 – Master's Degree in Musicology, namely Ethnomusicology, with the thesis Popular music exhibitions in Portugal: practices of representation from 2008 to 2013 – to be defended until the end of 2014.

2012 – Post-Graduate Studies inEstudos de Música Popular, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

2008 – Advanced Training Course in Edição e Revisão de Texto, Faculdade de Ciências Humanas, Universidade Católica Portuguesa

1992 – Degree in Musicologia, Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas, Universidade Nova de Lisboa.

Atividade profissional anterior/ Previous Professional Activity

2001 – 2011 (ten years) - Office of Science of Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Executive production and coordination of the traveling exhibiton program of the following exhibitons:

. A Evolução de Darwin. Lisbon, Madrid, Granada, Oporto, 2009-2011;

. Ingenuidades, Fotografia e Engenharia 1846-2006. Lisbon, 2007;

. Ao Serviço da Saúde. Lisbon, 2007;

. À luz de Einstein, 1905-2005. Lisbon, Coimbra, 2006;

. Potências de Dez. Lisbon, 2002.

Responsibilities:

• Executive production;

• Interfacing with the scientific design team;

• Implementation and supervision of the exhibition's operation;

• Development of marketing plan and promotional materials—on paper and online;

• Design of the educational program;

• Management of the POCI funding;

• Implementation of the study on the exhibition's impact and its public;

• Translation and proofreading of expository texts, drafting tables expository, and revision of texts for catalog;

• Coordination of the Traveling Exhibition program.

1998 – Head of Visitors/ Deputy Head of Visitors of Pavilhão do Futuro, as part of Expo'98.

Management and participation in other projects

Jul/Oct 00. Advisor to the Institute of Environmental Promotion, Ministry of Environment, in the organization and promotion of the European Day Without Cars. Implementation of the hot-line service, surveillance plan media, and contact management — services hired under the Decree-Law No. 197/99 of 8th June.

Mar/Dec 99. Member of the design and production team of a series of exhibitions for

the Agriculture-Environmental project The Rural World and Nature Conservation,

sponsored by the Institute of Agronomy and the Institute of Environmental Promotion.

1993/94. Collaboration with the Fonoteca of Lisbon, Lisbon City Council, on the project Maestro.

1992/93 Assistant Production of Theater Company The Saltimbancos. Publicity of the company's work, establishment of contacts and negotiations with cultural institutions,businesses, chambers and schools, public relations.

Júris/ Juries

2010 edition of the tender Comunicar Ambiente on the theme Biodiversidade, Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian.

Domínio de especialização/ Research Domains

Ethnomusicology / sound studies / museum studies / musical heritage / music museum's narratives / discourse analysis / musical sound as an artifact / phonogram's collections and sonorous archives / and music material collections

Comunicações/ Papers in Conference

CORTEZ, Alcina. Musical Sound in Museums: art object and artifact, Exhibiting 'music': re/presentation of music and sound in museum contexts, Universitat Bonn, Germany, 23-25 October 2014.

CORTEZ, Alcina. Popular Music: Museological Narratives, 17th Biennial Conference of International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM), Universidad de Oviedo, Gijón, Espanha, 24-28 June 2013.

CORTEZ, Alcina. When text leads to seeing: written materials in museums, ESF exploratory workshop on Visual Communication in Contemporary European Societies. Shaping Identities, Citizenship, Communities, Inclusion Strategies, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies in Translation, Languages and Cultures (SITLeC) of the University of Bologna at Forlì, Italy, 2-4 April 2011.

Artigos em revistas de carácter científico/ Papers in Journals

DELICADO, Ana; CORTEZ, Alcina; GAGO, Maria do Mar. "A Visita a Uma Exposição Científica vista pelos/as Professores/as: Elementos para uma análise" Contemporaneity on Arts Education/ Contemporaneidade na educação Artística, n.º 40, December 2013.

DELICADO, Ana; CORTEZ, Alcina; VALA, Filipa; GAGO, Maria do Mar; CASALEIRO, Pedro. "Comunicar Ciência Numa Exposição: Uma Avaliação Exploratória de A Evolução de Darwin," Seminário de Investigação em Museologia dos Países de Língua Portuguesa e Espanhola, Porto, October 2009.

Outras publicações/ other publications

CORTEZ, Alcina. "Três é o par perfeito: o texto senta-se entre o visitante e o objecto," Informação ICOM.PT, Série 2, 10, Sep–Nov 2010.

CORTEZ, Alcina. Olho Canhoto, romance (170 A4 pages, double spaced). October 2004 (unpublished).

1994/96. Translator, from French into Portuguese, of the Encyclopaedia texts in the

fields of music and dance of Nouveau Larousse Encyclopédique. The Portuguese edition, Nova Enciclopédia Larousse (22 Vols.), was edited by Círculo de Leitores

between 1997 and 1999.

CORTEZ, Alcina. "Sequeira Costa toca em Queluz," Jornal de Sintra, Vol. 61, N.o 3067, p. 16, 8th July 1994.

CORTEZ, Alcina, "Orquestra Gulbenkian no Festival dos Capuchos," Jornal de Sintra, Vol. 61, N.o 3069, p. 18, 22nd July 1994.

Atividade docente/ teaching activity

1992-97.Provisional Teacher of Secondary State School in the subject of Musical Education.

1986-94.Professor at the Lycée Français Charles Lepierre and at Diapasão school: Beginner's course in Music for children and musical education for adults.