Biography

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

As a researcher, he works in the Music Theory field, especially Computational Musicology and melodic contours. As a composer, he is the author of works and arrangements for various instrumental formations, presented by groups such as the UFBA Orchestra, GIMBA, UFBA Percussion Group, Duo Robatto, and Duo Sacramento. As an electric bass player, he performed with the UFBA Percussion Group, 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 was coordinator of the College of the Bachelor of Composition and Conducting Course (2019 to 2021) and deputy head of the Department of Music (2016 to 2018). He coordinated Composition and Conducting’s curriculum restructuring (2019 to 2021).

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.

Currently, he is researching Haydn’s string quartets using a quantitative methodology based on Computational Musicology tools.