Experience

  1. Professor

    Federal University of Bahia

    Activities:

    • Teaching
    • Research
    • Administration

  2. Technical coordinator of development

    Disco Azul

    Developed Beat Percussion Fever and Music Star Blocks.

    Activities:

    • Product conception
    • Modelling
    • Sampling Recording
    • Website development (backend)
    • SEO and ASO Marketing
    • Testing

Education

  1. PhD Music Composition

    Federal University of Bahia
    Thesis on theory of music contour relations. Supervised by Prof. Pedro Kroger.
    Read Thesis

  2. MA Music Composition

    Federal University of Bahia
    Thesis on theory of music contour relations. Supervised by Prof. Pedro Kroger.

  3. BSc Music Composition

    Federal University of Bahia
    Research paper supervised by Prof. Ricardo Bordini.
Biography

Marcos Sampaio is a composer, professor, and researcher in the fields of Music Theory and Composition. He completed his undergraduate, master’s, and doctoral studies in Musical Composition at the Federal University of Lavia, where he is also an Associate Professor at the School of Music, working in research, undergraduate and graduate teaching, as well as contributing to academic administration.

As a researcher, his focus is on Music Theory, with an emphasis on Computational Musicology, Contour Theory, and the analysis of rhythmic partitioning in musical texture. In his teaching, he offers courses in Harmony, Form, Analysis, Composition, and Instrumentation.

As a composer, he is the author of works and arrangements for various instrumental ensembles, performed by groups such as the UFBA Orchestra, GIMBA, the UFBA Percussion Ensemble, Duo Robatto, and Duo Sacramento. He is also an electric bass player, having performed with the UFBA Percussion Ensemble, A Trama do Macaco Prego, and various local artists from Salvador, Bahia.

In the administrative field, he has been the coordinator of the Bachelor’s degree in Composition and Conducting at UFBA since 2023, a position he also held from 2019 to 2021, and has been responsible for the curriculum restructuring of the program since 2020. He served as vice-chair of the Department of Music from 2016 to 2018.

Marcos has experience in software development, having served as the technical coordinator of the team responsible for the programs Beat Percussion Fever and Music Star Blocks at Disco Azul Produções Artísticas. He also develops the software tools RP Scripts and Zarlino, both focused on musical analysis.

A founding member of the Brazilian Association of Music Theory and Analysis (TeMA), he is also part of the research groups Genos (UFBA) and Partimus (UFRJ).

Currently, he is conducting research on Haydn’s string quartets using a quantitative approach based on tools from Computational Musicology. He supervises doctoral projects and has supervised scientific initiation, master’s, and postdoctoral research projects in this field.