Tania Lisboa is Professor of Music and Applied Performance Science at the Royal College of Music (RCM). She is also an honorary Senior Research Fellow at Imperial College London. As part of the Centre for Performance Science (CPS), her research focuses on expert memory, performance education, and arts in urban health of the Global South. Tania has acted as a commissioner to the International Society for Music Education’s Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician for six years, and she was an Artistic Research Fellow at the Orpheus Institute, Belgium, for three years.
Her doctoral research at Sheffield University employed longitudinal studies with young cellists to investigate the relationship between musical understanding and a multi-modal approach to teaching and learning. Tania also managed the RCM’s distance learning programme from 2003 to 2018, leading digital learning collaborations with international conservatoires and universities in the USA, Europe, and Asia.
In parallel with her academic research, Tania pursues an active career as a solo cellist. A native of Brazil, where she also trained as a pianist, her concert engagements encompass Europe, Asia, and North and South America. In addition to the standard repertoire, she has recorded the complete works for cello and piano by Brazilian composers C Guarnieri and by H Villa-Lobos for Meridian Records, the latter in three volumes.