José António Oliveira Martins:
Ph.D. in the History and Theory of Music from the University of Chicago.
Director "Coordenador Científico" of CEIS20 (2020-2025) – Center for Interdisciplinary Studies at the University of Coimbra and Professor of Music Studies at FLUC – Faculty of Arts and Humanities.
President of SPIM (2021-2026) – Sociedade Portuguesa de Investigação em Música (Portuguese Society for Music Research).
Former FCT-Principal Researcher (eq. Professor Associado) and Vice-director of the Research Center for Science and Technology of the Arts at the Catholic University of Portugal, and Assistant Professor at the Eastman School of Music of the University of Rochester and at the University of Iowa. Research fellow at Princeton University.
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.
Publications appear in Musurgia, Journal of Music Theory, Perspectives of New Music, Routledge Companion of Music Theory Pedagogy, Theory and Practice, Bridges, Mathematics and Computation in Music, and Portuguese Journal of Musicology, among others.
Work recognitions:
2024 Outstanding Publication Award (on color and movement in the music of Witold Lutosławski) by the Society for Music Theory (North-America).
2019 Musurgia Prize for Music Analysis (on the theoretical modelling of the twentieth-century polytonal practice), Société Française d'Analyse Musicale – international competition commemorating the 25th anniversary of the journal.
2006 Patricia Carpenter Emerging Scholar award (on Stravinsky's discursive discontinuities) by the Music Theory Society of New York State.
2004 Arthur J. Komar Scholar award, 2003 Honorable mention (on the modelling of polymodality in the music of Bártok), Music Theory Midwest Society.
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), and EITAM – Encontro de Teoria e Análise Musical (2013, BR).
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.
Principal-researcher for a number of North-American and FCT (PT) financed projects.
Founder committee: The European Network for Theory and Analysis of Music.
Chair, Organizing/Program Committees:
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
