Maria João Vasconcelos has been a Portuguese Music Education teacher in secondary schools since 2000. She has taught Music Expression/Education and Music across all educational levels, from preschool to secondary education. Having been awarded a scholarship by the Ministry of Education, she worked as a Research Fellow funded by the Foundation for Science and Technology (SFRH/BD/147004/2019). She holds a Ph.D. in Education (Supervision and Evaluation), developed within the research units of the University of Aveiro: INET-md (Institute of Ethnomusicology – Center for Studies in Music and Dance) and CIDTFF (Research Centre on Didactics and Technology in Teacher Education). She also holds a Master’s degree in Music Sciences (Ethnomusicology) from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences, NOVA University Lisbon, and a Bachelor’s degree in Music Education for Basic Education Teachers from the School of Education of Coimbra. In addition, she completed the General Violin Course and the 8th Degree in Musical Training at the Calouste Gulbenkian Conservatory of Aveiro. She is the author of several publications in the fields of Music and Education, with articles featured in the Encyclopedia of Music in Portugal in the 20th Century, the Journal of the Portuguese Association of Music Education, the Portuguese Journal of Artistic Education, the Electronic Journal of Music in Education (LEEME), and the Brazilian Journal of Music Education. She has actively participated in conferences and academic meetings, presenting her work as a teacher-researcher. For many years, she was also a philharmonic musician specializing in flute and piccolo.