Luzia Aurora Rocha studied Musicology in Lisbon (Portugal) and Innsbruck (Austria) and obtained a PhD in Musicology from the New University of Lisbon, in 2012, with a dissertation on Portuguese Baroque Musical Iconography. She is currently a research fellow at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM), with part-time teaching duties at the Department of Musicology of the New University of Lisbon (NOVA FCSH); she also coordinates the Musical Iconography Thematic Line at CESEM. Her work spans the fields of Musicology, Musical Iconography, Organology, Semiotics and Cultural Studies, with a focus on the issues of production, reception, cataloguing of sources and cultural transfer.
 
She has taught at several higher education and university institutions (Piaget Institute, INUAF, Metropolitan Orchestra and the Lusíada University in Lisbon) in the areas of Music History, Musical Iconography, Organology, Pedagogy and Didactics.
 
Luzia Aurora Rocha holds a Merit Prize from the New University of Lisbon (1999) and benefited from a PhD scholarship (FCT, 2006) and two postdoctoral scholarships (The Orient Foundation, 2015; CESEM, 2017) before she applied successfully for a contract as a researcher (2019-). Rocha is the author of Cantate Dominum – Música e Espiritualidade no Azulejo Barroco (Colibri, 2015) and Opera & Caricatura – o Teatro de S. Carlos na obra de Rafael Bordalo Pinheiro (Colibri, 2010), co-author of Musical Images: Iconographic-Musical Itinerary (Althum, 2019), editor of Iconografia Musical: Autores de Países Ibero-Americanos e das Caraíbas (2015) and co-editor of Iconografia Musical: Organologia, Construtores e Prática Musical em Diálogo (2017) and Iconografia Musical: Temas Portugueses (2020). Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed and Web-of-Science-indexed journals such as Acta Musicologica, Studia Musicologica, Journal of Musicological Research and Musica Hodie.
 
She has presented her work abroad by invitation and as a keynote speaker in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Russia, China and Japan.

E-mail: luzia.rocha@fcsh.unl.pt

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