About me
Originally from Recife, Brazil, 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. Maria 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 holds Master of Music (1991) and 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.
