Brenda Suyanne Barbosa, M.A.

Brenda Suyanne Barbosa is a Brazilian musician, ethnomusicologist, music archaeologist and music educator. She currently works as a research assistant and lecturer in Transcultural Music Studies at the Franz Liszt University of Music Weimar-Jena. Her work combines historical research, ethnographic field studies and artistic practice, with a focus on historical instruments and transcultural sound dialogues. Building on collaborations with indigenous musicians in Brazil and studies of historical instruments on the European Atlantic coast, she investigates how musical reconstruction and performance can revive historical soundscapes and create new forms of artistic expression that connect the past and the present.
She holds a BA in clarinet and music education, an MA in ethnomusicology and a postgraduate qualification in music history and composition, and is currently pursuing a PhD in musicology.

Current collaborations:
•    Many Voices Project (Keio University / University of Auckland) – Research on Guarani and other indigenous musical cultures 
•    Thesaurus and Kuaxiru Project (University of Goiás) – Study of Karaja instruments
•    The Global Jukebox – Consultant for Brazilian folk and indigenous music
Research interests:

•    Musicology 
•    Music and evolution 
•    Music education 
•    Archaeology 
•    Ethnomusicology 
•    Performance practice 
•    Composition 
•    Museology 
•    Conservation and restoration 
•    Musical palaeography 
•    Archiving 
•    Organology