Manuel Pedro Ferreira studied Music and Philosophy in Lisbon and earned his Ph.D from Princeton University, where he wrote a dissertation on Gregorian chant at Cluny. He is a Professor at the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (Department of Musicology, FCSH), where he chaired, between March 2005 and March 2023, the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM); he held a guest professorship at EPHE, Paris-Sorbonne (2004-2005) and was Visiting Research Fellow at IIAS, Jerusalem (2016). In 1995 he founded the early music ensemble Vozes Alfonsinas, with which he produces himself in concerts and recordings. He published a large number of papers, both on medieval music and on other topics, namely twentieth-century Portuguese music. His prize-winning book O som de Martin Codax (Lisbon, 1986) was followed by many others, either as author or editor, e.g. Cantus coronatus (Kassel, 2005), Medieval Sacred Chant: from Japan to Portugal (Lisbon, 2008), Aspectos da Música Medieval, 2 vols. (Lisbon, 2009-2010), Revisiting the Music of Medieval France (Farnham-Burlington, 2012), Musical Exchanges, 1100-1650: Iberian connections (Kassel, 2016) and The Notation of the Cantigas de Santa Maria: Diplomatic Edition, 3 vols. (Lisbon, 2017). He has been additionally active as a music critic, a composer and a poet. He is a member of the Academia Europaea (since 2010) and served as Director-at-large of the International Musicological Society (2012-2022).