José António Oliveira Martins:

EDUCATION/PROFESSIONAL TRAJECTORY:

  • Ph.D. (2006) History and Theory of Music, University of Chicago.
  • MM. (1996) Violin Performance and Music Theory, Northwestern University.
  • BM. (1992) Violin Performance. Instituto Politécnico do Porto.
  • 2020-2025 Director "Coordenador Científico", Center for Interdisciplinary Studies (CEIS20) of the University of Coimbra
  • 2019-pres. Professor of Music Studies at FLUC – Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
  • 2021-2026 President, Portuguese Society for Music Research (SPIM – Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música).
  • 2019-present Founding Committee, The European Network for Theory and Analysis of Music (EuroT&AM)

Former Appointments: 

  • 2015-2019 FCT-Principal Researcher (eq. Associate Professor) and Vice-Director of the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts at the Catholic University of Portugal
  • 2008-2015 Assistant Professor, Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester
  • 2012 Research Fellow, Princeton University.
  • 2006-2008 Assistant Professor, University of Iowa

Expert/Evaluator: 

  • 2022-present Panel: ERC-European Research Council (SH6, SH8 - consolidator); 
  • 2024 Reviewer ERC- Synergy Grants; 
  • 2019-2024 Panel: Final Scientific Project R&D Reports in the Arts FCT-Science and Technology Foundation; 
  • 2017-2023 Panel: Agency for Assessment and Accreditation of Higher Education (A3ES), External Evaluation Committee (CAE); 
  • 2022-23 Committee: Society for Music Theory, Multi-author Publication Awards.

AWARDS/GRANTS/RECOGNITIONS:

  • 2025-2029 ERA CHAIR Action, European Commission. 2.5 Million Euro. MusicAnalytica: Interdisciplining Music Studies through the Reconfiguration of Theoretical and Analytical Knowledge. Richard Cohn, Chair Holder, University of Coimbra.
  • 2024 Outstanding Publication Award, Society for Music Theory. Article on JMT 67.2 (2023): on color and movement in the music of Witold Lutosławski) .
  • 2019 Musurgia Prize for Music Analysis, Société Française d'Analyse Musicale (Article on Musurgia 26.3-4 (2019): on the theoretical modelling of the twentieth-century polytonal practice). International competition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the journal.
  • 2006 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar Award, Music Theory Society of New York State (on Stravinsky's discursive discontinuities).
  • 2004 Arthur J. Komar Scholar Award, Music Theory Midwest Society (on Stravinsky).
  • 2003 Arthur J. Komar Scholar Award, Music Theory Midwest Society. Honorable mention (on the modelling of polymodality in the music of Bártok)
  • Research fellow at John Clough Memorial Symposia and the Mannes Institute for Advanced Studies in Music Theory (Yale University).
  • Keynote Speaker:
    • TeMA/MusMat (2019, BR)
    • ENIM IX– Encontro de Investigação em Música (2019, PT)
    • IV Encontro Internacional de Piano Contemporâneo (2019, PT)
    • EurSAX (2017, PT)
    • EITAM – Encontro de Teoria e Análise Musical (2013, BR).

SCIENTIFIC ACHIEVEMENTS:

Peer-review conferences, symposia, and meetings such as the Society for Music Theory (US), American Musicological Society (US), European Music Analysis Conference (EU), Society for Music Analysis (UK), Convegno Internazionale di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (IT), Mathematics and Computation in Music Conference (US-EU), Encontro Nacional de Investigação em Música (PT), Sociedad Espanõla de Musicologia (ES), among many others.

Talks and seminars at institutions such as the University of Washington (US), Yale University (US), University of Cincinnati (US), Cornell University (US), Indiana University (US), University of Iowa (US), University of Victoria (CA), Jagiellonian Universitet (PL), Universidade Nova de Lisboa (PT), Instituto Politécnico do Porto (PT), Universidade de Aveiro (PT), ESMUC (ES), Conservatorio di Como (IT), Conservatorio di Novara (IT), Conservatorio di Salerno (IT).

Chief-editor for the Journal of Science and Technology of the Arts (2019); Reviews-editor for Theory and Practice (Music Theory Society of New York State). Editorial board and reviewer for: Music Theory Spectrum (US), OPUS (BR), Musica Theorica (BR), MusMat (BR), Rivista di Analisi e Teoria Musicale (IT), Music Theory Spectrum (US), Journal of Music Theory (US), Music Theory Online (US), Music Theory & Analysis (NL), etc.

Chair, Organiser (International Conferences)

  • 2024 Mathematics and Computation in Music (with SMCM), Coimbra
  • 2023 Symposium: Interdisicplining Knowledge: Humanities, Sciences and Culture, Coimbra
  • 2023 Música Analítica: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Musical Time, Coimbra
  • 2019 Música Analítica: International Symposium on Analysis and Theory of Music, Porto
  • 2016 Porto International Conference on Musical Gesture as Creative Interface, Porto

Research interests

Modelling of formalized systems of musical modernity (scale theory, modulation theory, and transformational theory), analytical readings of post-tonal music of composers in the so-called scalar tradition such as Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Maurice Ravel, Darius Milhaud, Fernando Lopes-Graça, Manuel de Falla, Witold Lutoslawski, and György Kurtág, among others. Recently, I have explored the creation-embodiment-significance nexus of oral traditions, such as the Portuguese-guitar concert music, centered on the music of Carlos Paredes. Research Platform Canção de Coimbra.

Publications appear in Music Theory Spectrum, Musurgia, Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Routledge Companion of Music Theory Pedagogy, Theory and Practice, Bridges, Springer-Nature, and Portuguese Journal of Musicology, among others.

 
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