Ângela Flores Baltazar is a PhD candidate in Musical Sciences at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of NOVA University of Lisbon and the recipient of a research grant awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (ref. 2023.05001.BD). Her doctoral project examines the modes of dissemination of “classical music” on Portuguese television between 1975 and 1989, as part of a broader reflection on cultural democratization in Europe. She holds a bachelor’s degree (2018) and a master’s degree (2023) in Musical Sciences, with a specialization in historical musicology, both obtained at the same institution. Her master’s thesis, entitled “The Youth Symphony Orchestra – Professionalization and Musical Dissemination between 1973 and 1989,” explores the role of an orchestral structure in the training of young musicians and the circulation of music during the first decades of Portuguese democracy. She was awarded a merit scholarship by the Manuel António da Mota Foundation and has participated in several research projects funded by the FCT. An associate researcher at the Centre for the Study of Sociology and Musical Aesthetics (CESEM), she is a member of the Critical Theory and Communication Group as well as the Gender and Music Studies Hub. Her research is situated within the field of the sociology of music, with particular attention to dynamics of taste, processes of cultural distribution, musical mediation, and the role of the media in the construction of publics in Europe in the second half of the twentieth century. She regularly presents her work at national and international conferences and publishes in scholarly journals such as International Journal of Music Science, Technology and Art and De Musica Disserenda. She has also been involved in the organization of academic events, including the first CESEM Doctoral Students’ Meeting (2025) and several editions of the Music, Media, and Publics study days. Alongside her research activities, she pursues a career as a violinist and pedagogue. She began her musical studies at the Luís António Maldonado Rodrigues Conservatory and later continued them at the National Superior Academy of the Metropolitana Orchestra. She has performed as an extra musician with several professional orchestras, including the Lisbon Metropolitan Orchestra, the Portuguese Symphony Orchestra, and the Lisbon Philharmonic Orchestra. She is currently a member of the Loures Symphony Orchestra and the Foco Musical Didactic Orchestra. She has been teaching violin at the Telheiras Academy of Music since 2015. She also has significant experience in music publishing, having collaborated with editors such as CESEM, AVA Editions, and Teatro do Eléctrico, using the software Finale and Sibelius. Between 2015 and 2022, she served as musical director of the cultural association Casa Cheia, for which she created several original theatrical soundtracks, primarily based on electronic media. In 2021, she joined the cast of the play Carta by Mónica Calle, presented at the National Theatre Dona Maria II and on tour in several European cities.