Maria João Albuquerque

Biography

Maria João Durães Albuquerque is a music librarian with a PhD in Information Sciences from the Complutense University of Madrid, where she completed a thesis on music publishing in Portugal (1834-1900), for which she received the Special Doctoral Award in 2015. Currently, she is an integrated researcher at the Instituto de Etnomusicologia – Centro de Estudos em Música e Dança (INET-md), Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal, where she is part of the Historical and Cultural Studies in Music research group and co-coordinates the thematic line Heritage, Archives, and Museums. In addition, she works as a librarian at the Ministry of Internal Affairs (Ministério da Administração Interna, MAI).

Maria João graduated in History from the University of Lisbon and completed the Superior Course of Piano at the Lisbon Conservatory of Music, as well as a degree in Composition at the Lisbon Superior School of Music. She later specialized in librarianship, obtaining a post-graduate degree in Documentation Sciences from the University of Lisbon and a master’s degree in the same field from the University of Évora.

Throughout her career, she has taught at various levels in music schools and has worked as a librarian in numerous prestigious institutions, including the National Library of Portugal, Ajuda Library, Faculty of Sciences of the University of Lisbon, the School Libraries Network, and more recently, libraries within the Security and Defence sectors.

She has participated in numerous national and international congresses, colloquia, seminars, and conferences, and has authored books, book chapters, and several articles. She was awarded an honorable mention in the Raul Proença Award 2004 by the Associação Portuguesa de Bibliotecários, Arquivistas e Documentalistas (BAD) and the Instituto Português do Livro e das Bibliotecas (IPLB).

She participated in the research project “Studies of Instrumental Music, 1755-1840” (UnIMeM – UE), FCT: PTDC/EAT-MMU/104206/2008, and also collaborated on the research project “PROFMUS – To be a Musician in Portugal: The Social and Professional Condition of Musicians in Lisbon” (INET-md, funded by FCT), where she worked on musical ontologies.

Currently, she is developing a project aimed at mapping Portuguese musical heritage.

Main interests: Music Printing and Publishing; Music Publishers; Conceptual Models for Musical Information; Musical Ontologies; Information Curation; Musical Curation.