Patricia Maria Vanzella

'''Patricia M. Vanzella''' is a Brazilian pianist,<ref>{{Cite news |date=2024-01-17 |title=Concerts OperaPOLISH THEATRE I ... |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/2001/05/18/concerts-operapolish-theatre-i/a7744477-a759-46c2-a586-59af857f3cb1/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |newspaper=Washington Post |language=en-US |issn=0190-8286}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Guia da Folha |url=https://www1.folha.uol.com.br/guia/co1008200703.shtml |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=www1.folha.uol.com.br}}</ref> professor of music, and researcher specializing in the Cognitive Neuroscience of Music. She currently serves as the president of the Brazilian Association of Cognition and Musical Arts (ABCM) for the 2023–2026 term and is a faculty member of the Center for Mathematics, Computing, and Cognition at the Federal University of ABC (UFABC) in São Bernardo do Campo, Brazil.<ref>{{Cite web |date=2018-05-07 |title=Dupla feminina faz concerto na USP nesta quarta-feira |trans-title=Female duo performs concert at USP this Wednesday |url=https://jornal.usp.br/cultura/dupla-feminina-faz-concerto-na-usp-nesta-quarta-feira/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Jornal da USP |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

== Education == Vanzella graduated with a degree in Music in 1985 from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo, where she studied under the guidance of pianist Gilberto Tinetti. She furthered her studies at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest, Hungary, from 1986 to 1988, with Kornél Zempléni. In 2005, she completed her doctorate in Piano and Chamber Music at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., USA, guided by pianist Marilyn Neeley. In 2010, she was appointed a postdoctoral position at UFABC’s Graduate Program in Information Engineering, focusing her research on tone perception in individuals with absolute pitch.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patrícia Maria Vanzella |publisher= Universidade Federal do ABC |url=https://www.ufabc.edu.br/ensino/docentes/patricia-maria-vanzella |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=www.ufabc.edu.br |language=pt-br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Neurociência e Música na UFABC |trans-title=Neuroscience and Music at UFABC |url=https://neuromusica.pesquisa.ufabc.edu.br/ |access-date=2024-09-24 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

== Career ==

=== Performance === Vanzella has performed as soloist with Brazilian symphony orchestras, including the São Paulo State Symphony Orchestra, the USP Symphony Orchestra, and the Claudio Santoro National Theater Symphony Orchestra. She has also participated with chamber music ensembles in concert halls across the Americas, Europe, and Asia.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patricia Maria Vanzella |url=https://buscatextual.cnpq.br/buscatextual/visualizacv.do;jsessionid=852A867F987AEB5AEB5BEBEB6014B54D.buscatextual_0 |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=buscatextual.cnpq.br}}</ref>

=== Academics === From 1993 to 2014, she served as a professor in the Music Department at the University of Brasília. Since 2015, she has been a faculty member at the Center for Mathematics, Computing, and Cognition at UFABC, where she founded and coordinates the interdisciplinary research group "NEUROMÚSICA UFABC," which explores the intricate ways in which humans perceive, produce, and emotionally respond to music.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patricia Maria Vanzella |url=https://www.escavador.com/sobre/8214036/patricia-maria-vanzella |access-date=24 September 2024 |website=escavador.com}}</ref>

=== Research and publications === Vanzella has an extensive publication record in scientific journals, collaborating with researchers both in Brazil and internationally. Her research primarily focused on cognitive neuroscience, particularly in music perception and cognition.<ref>{{Cite journal |last=Vanzella |first=Patricia |date=2020-01-01 |title=Os efeitos cognitivos do treinamento musical |trans-title=The cognitive effects of musical training |url=https://www.academia.edu/45175968 |journal=Intervenção Cognitiva}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Borges |first=Renato |title=Palavra-chave: Ouvido absoluto |trans-title=Keyword: Absolute pitch |url=https://www.amplificar.mus.br/data/palavrasChave/Ouvido-absoluto |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=Amplificar |language=pt}}</ref> She has collaborated with institutions such as the University of Toronto, University of London, and the Max Planck Institute for Human Cognitive and Brain Sciences in Leipzig, as well as in universities in Brazil, such as UNIFESP and USP. Vanzella regularly delivers lectures at national and international conferences about the relationship between music and the brain.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Patricia Vanzella |url=https://scholar.google.com.br/citations?user=VBKbXuYAAAAJ&hl=en |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=scholar.google.com.br}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=ORCID |url=https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7709-1495 |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=orcid.org}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |title=Web of Science |url=https://www.webofscience.com/wos/author/record/830129 |access-date=2024-09-24 |website=www.webofscience.com}}</ref>

In parallel, as part of the University's outreach activities, she develops educational and cultural events for academic and scientific knowledge dissemination, such as the Synaptic Concerts<ref>{{Cite web |title=Conversas Neuromusicais – 10 anos |url=https://eventos.ufabc.edu.br/evento/conversas-neuromusicais-10-anos-2/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |website=eventos.ufabc.edu.br |language=en}}</ref> and the cycle of lectures "Neuromusical Talks.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Concertos Sinápticos {{!}} Neurociência e Música na UFABC |url=https://neuromusica.pesquisa.ufabc.edu.br/synaptic-concert/ |access-date=2024-09-30 |language=pt-BR}}</ref>

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