Dr. Maria Monteiro
Lecturer in Church Music
Education
Ph.D. Church Music, Baylor University
M.M. Music History & Literature, Baylor University
B.M. Music History & Literature, Baylor University
Biography
Originally from Recife, Brazil, Dr. Maria Monteiro serves as Lecturer in Church Music at Baylor University, and as music director at Primera Iglesia Bautista Mexicana (First Mexican Baptist Church), in San Antonio. Before joining the Baylor faculty in 2020, she taught for seventeen years at Baptist University of the Américas, also in San Antonio.
Dr. Monteiro is interested in the important connection between academic perspectives in church music—past and present, local and global—and the musical life of present-day congregations. She prizes the challenges and rewards of working in higher education and in music ministry.
She holds a Master of Music (1991) and a Bachelor of Music (1987) degrees in Music History and Literature, from Baylor University, a certificate of graduate studies in Musicology from Duke University (1998), and a Ph.D. in Church Music (2021) from Baylor.