Rima Povilionienė (b. 1975), PhD in musicology, is a
full time professor at the Department of Music Theory of the
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre, Assistant Editorin-
chief of the scientific yearly Lithuanian Musicology and an
editor at the Lithuanian National Philharmonic. She is an
author of the monograph Musica mathematica. Traditions
and Innovations in Contemporary
Music (Peter Lang, 2016,
288 p.). Rima is a co-editor (with Nick Zangwill and Rūta
Stanevičiūtė) of Of Essence and Context: Between Music and
Philosophy collection for Springer (2019). She held a researcher
position at the International Semiotics Institute (ISI) at Kaunas
University of Technology and at the Centre for Science
at the Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre. Rima held
internships at the Institute of Musicology at Leipzig University
(2004) and IRCAM (2012) and attended Eastman School
summer courses in Paris, IRCAM (2019). She has edited over
15 collections and published more than 30 scientific articles
and 150 critical reviews. She has been a guest lecturer at such
institutions as Leipzig University, the Tbilisi Conservatoire,
the Belgrade
University of Arts, the J. Vitols Latvian Academy
of Music, Vilnius University, and Kaunas University of Technology.
Her monograph Musica Mathematica (in Lithuanian,
2013) was awarded Prof. Vytautas Landsbergis Foundation
Prize for the best musicological work of the year. She is an
editor of two collections for Springer (2017 and 2019).