José Abreu has a flute diploma from the Conservatório de Música do Porto and holds a Musicology Ph.D from the University of Surrey, United Kingdom. He is an Integrated member of the Centre for Classical and Humanistic Studies (CECH) of the University of Coimbra, where he has developed and supervised multiple research projects on musical sources from the 16th to the 18th centuries preserved in Portuguese archives and libraries. With Paulo Estudante, he created the project Mundos e Fundos | Mundos Metodológicos e Interpretativos dos Fundos Musicais. He is also a member of the international research group Lexique Musical de la Renaissance, based at the Centre d’Études Supèrieures de la Renaissance (Tours, France) and the project Tratados musicales en español, based at the University of Salamanca. He teaches at the Conservatory of Music in Aveiro, at the University of Coimbra (postgraduate in Artistic Studies) and has collaborated with the Escola Superior de Música e Artes do Espectáculo in Porto. His field of research focuses on the Portuguese musical heritage prior to the 18th century, his main interests are the study of musical sources, counterpoint and musical reconstruction, compositional processes and techniques, the social and cultural contextualization of European musical practice and the critical edition of music from this period.