Matilde María
Olarte Martínez

Matilde Olarte is currently Musicology Professor at the Arts Faculty at the University of Salamanca. B-Mus degree in Piano by the Professional Conservatory of Music in Valladolid (1983), obtained his B-Mus degree in Musicology at the University of Oviedo (1987), her M-Mus degree of Magistrum in Music at the University of Glasgow (1990), her Ph-D in Music at University of Valladolid (1992), and Master's Degree in Specialist Studies on the Oral Tradition at Valladolid University (1996). Her main fields of teaching and researching covers Spanish Oral Traditional Music, Gender Studies in Spanish Music, and with special emphasis, on Film Music. Since 1989 she teaches at the University of Salamanca, although she combines it with guest lecturers in Spanish and foreign universities, highlighting their PhD courses and conferences in Heidelberg, Köln, Detmold, Berlin and Bonn (Germany), Glasgow , Oxford and Cambridge (Great Britain), Bergamo and Padua (Italy), Paris, Viena, Sofia and Plovdiv (Bulgaria), Montevideo (Uruguay), Mexico DF, Querétaro, Guanajuato and San Luis Potosí (Mexico) or New Mexico, Virginia and New York (USA). She is the Coordinator of the Research Group IHMAGINE (https://ihmagine.usal.es/). Her research focuses primarily on projects sponsored by the Spanish I+D Ministry for Research and the Local Government Junta de Castilla y Leon, and other Spanish and European programs such as INAEM, AECI, DAAD, and Erasmus. She has been Treasurer of the Spanish Musicology Society (2003-2007). She has been the Coordinator and Director of the Biennal Conference on Film Music at Salamanca University since beginning in 2002 to 2010 (which proceedings have been published). She has been the coordinator of the Master-in-Music studies [Máster en Música Hispana] in Salamanca University and actually she is the coordinator of the Practicum for Undergraduate and Potsgraduate Musicology Studies. Her contributions to the training of young researchers are focused on the direction of doctoral theses for more than 20 years, both at the University of Salamanca and in other Spanish Universities; of the 32 Ph-D dissertations supervised to date, eleven have obtained the Extraordinary Doctorate Award of her University, of which twelve were European and International Doctorate. She has contributed to the career development of these people by being their tutor in the Grants for Research Staff (linked as Main Research for Research and Development projects -I+D+I) and by publishing the results of their theses in collaboration. She also supervised 57 Master Dissertations. As for the constitution of research teams, she initiated at the University of Salamanca the Recognised Research Group of the Usal IHMAGINE (Intangible Heritage Music and Gender International Network), of which she is currently Main Research (https://ihmagine.usal.es/) and she is also de leader of the Transference Group PATRIICIUS. She coordinates the musicological collections "Musicologia Hoy" (Amaru Editions) and "Musica Viva" (Salamanca University Press). Finally, she holds the Gloría Vegué Award for Excellence in Teaching 2021, and the María de Maeztu Award for Excellence in Researching 2025, University of Salamanca. Actually, she is Vice-chancellor for Culture, Heritage, Sustainability and Development between Campus,