Faculty & Staff

Dr. Rosangela Sebba

Associate Professor
Piano and Music Theory

rys3@colled.msstate.edu
(662) 325-2854
Music Building A, Room F

• D. M. A. University of Southern Mississippi (MS)
• M. M. University of Wyoming (WY)
• B. M. Universidade Federal de Goiás, Brazil.

Rosângela Sebba combines an active concert and teaching schedule, and is noted for her lecture-recitals and research in Brazilian music, specifically the music of M. Camargo Guarnieri. She has performed and given master classes in the United States, Brazil and Mexico and has given lectures at state, regional, national and international conferences in the United States and abroad. She is the founder and coordinator of the Brazilian Music Festival, an annual event at Mississippi State University.

Dr. Sebba studied with Belkiss S. Carneiro de Mendonça, Gary Smart, and Stanley Waldoff and played in master classes given by: Arnaldo Cohen, Miguel Proença, Antonio Guedes Barbosa, Luís de Moura Castro, Jean-Yves Thibaudet, and John Browning. As a sought-after chamber musician she has accompanied master classes and concerts of artists such as: Simon Estes, Wynton Marsalis, Emerson String Quartet, Joseph Robinson, Csaba Erdelyi, and Leontyne Price.

She is on the board of the Mississippi Music Teachers Association as the chair of the Independent Music Teachers Forum. Dr. Sebba currently serves as Associate Professor of Piano and Music Theory and, prior to her appointment at MSU, she held positions at Gustav Ritter State Conservatory - Brazil, the University of Southern Mississippi and Pear River Community College. Her biography is featured in Who's Who in America, Who's Who in Emerging Leaders and Who's Who in Education.

She is in the process of recording a CD of the eight Sonatinas and the Sonata for Piano Solo by M. Camargo Guarnieri, a grant supported by the Brazilian government. In the fall of 2008 Dr. Sebba took a sabbatical leave moving to New York City. While there she took classes at the Juilliard School and was invited to perform at David Dubal?s lecture at the Cervantes Institute, which was broadcasted on WQXR, the prestigious classical radio station of New York.