Biography

Marcos Sampaio is a composer, professor, and researcher in Music Theory and Composition. He completed his Ph.D. in Composition at the Federal University of Bahia in 2012.

He researches Music Theory, especially Computational Musicology and Contour Theory. He has composed music pieces and arrangements for various instrumental formations presented by the UFBA Orchestra, GIMBA, UFBA Percussion Group, Duo Robatto, and Duo Sacramento. As an electric bass player, he has performed with the UFBA Percussion Group, A Trama do Macaco Prego, and local artists from Salvador, BA. He teaches Harmony, Form, Analysis, Composition, and Instrumentation.

He is an Associate Professor at the Federal University of Bahia School of Music. In this institution, he works in research, teaching, and administration. In the administrative sphere, he coordinated the College of the Bachelor of Composition and Conducting Course (2019 to 2021) and was deputy head of the Department of Music (2016 to 2018). He has been coordinating Composition and Conducting’s curriculum restructuring since 2020.

He has experience in software development. He was the technical coordinator of the team that developed the Beat Percussion Fever and Music Star Blocks software at Disco Azul Produções Artísticas and developed ContourMetrics, a web software for processing musical contours.

He is now researching Haydn’s string quartets using a quantitative methodology based on Computational Musicology tools.