Born in 1998, João Alexandre Dias obtained an 8th Grade Diploma in Classical and Jazz Piano from Trinity College London in 2019. He graduated in Musicology from the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa in 2020 and earned an MSc in Historical Musicology from the same institution in 2022. For his thesis, he produced a critical edition of Marcos Portugal’s “Missa Piquena” (MarP. 01.15, V.1). Currently, he is pursuing a PhD in Musicology, with a focus on Historical Musicology, at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences at Universidade Nova de Lisboa. Since 2023, he has integrated the Group for Historical and Cultural Studies in Music at INET-md. As a researcher, he focuses on the philological and paleographic study of musical sources and their subsequent critical editing, with a particular emphasis on 18th and 19th-century repertoires. Through his dissertation project, titled “Práticas Pedagógicas no Ensino dos Instrumentos de Tecla no Real Seminário da Patriarcal (1713-1834)”, he aims to investigate the teaching methods applied at the Real Seminário da Patriarcal, by examining didactic materials such as partimenti and “solfejos de acompanhar” written by Portuguese composers and foreign authors residing in Portugal. In connection with the project, he has participated in numerous workshops organized by the Early Music Department of the Escola Superior de Música de Lisboa, as part of the “Laboratório de Partimento” course. At the same time, he has been active as a composer, and as a Piano and Music Theory teacher at the Coro de Santo Amaro de Oeiras. In 2019, his piece “The Flight of a Butterfly” for solo piano was awarded second place in the 10th Edition of the Fidélio International Composition Competition for Solo Piano, sponsored by Fidélio Editorial and the Taller de Músicos de Madrid.