Teresa Gentil - Biographical Note Composer, performer, and researcher. Teresa Gentil is a PhD student in Ethnomusicology at Nova University Lisbon, under the supervision of Salwa Castelo-Branco and Rui Vieira Nery, with a research grant awarded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/137392/2018). She holds a master’s degree in Ethnomusicology from the same institution, a bachelor’s degree in Music Composition from the Higher School of Music and Performing Arts (Porto), and a postgraduate degree in Education – Design and Development of Educational Projects from the University of the Azores. She composes for theater, musicals, operas, orchestral works, ensembles, and, on a smaller scale, for cinema and dance. Teresa has participated in numerous collaborative and interdisciplinary artistic projects within communities, working with both elderly and young people in challenging social and cultural contexts and regularly collaborated with Fábrica das Artes – CCB, the National Reading Plan, and the associations Formiga Atómica and Artis XXI. Teresa is the founder of Prolíficas, Comunidade Compositoras Açores (an association dedicated to the promotion of contemporary music, which organizes the Prolífica Festival) and Descalças Cooperativa Cultural (a cooperative fostering social inclusion through art). She published five original albums and has been awarded the Labjovem/Teatro and LAb./Música prizes by the Government of the Azores, the Zeca Afonso prize by the Municipality of Almada, and, more recently, the Joaquim de Vasconcelos Prize, awarded by the Portuguese Society for Music Research. Last year, two of her collaborative operas premiered: Vencer o Dia (libretto and music), created in collaboration with Teatro do Sotão, the Algarve Mental Health Association, and the Baroque Orchestra D’Aquém Mar and Uma Conversa Infinita, composed for the Leça da Palmeira Music School. She also composed for the theater plays Catarina Eufémia by Claudia Gaiolas, Friza by the company Cães do Mar (Terceira Island), and the orchestral work ainda vou encontrar nos teus lábios um cravo, commissioned by the Gulbenkian Orchestra for the collaborative concert Sounds of a Revolution, directed by the artist Mikhail Karikis.