Rosangela Yazbec Sebba was only six-years-old when she first sat before the ivory keys of a piano. A native of Brazil, Sebba and her siblings were required by their mother to learn music and a foreign language, English, to expand their individual and cultural development and prepare them for a brighter future.

For the professor of music, that background would provide the inspiration leading to a long and successful career. While still a high school student, Sebba won a national musical competition in Brazil. At Federal University in Goias, Brazil, she earned her bachelor's degree in music and piano performance while working as a full-time performing musician.

In 1994, after teaching the State Conservatory for six years, Sebba came to the United States to pursue master's and doctoral degrees, arriving at Mississippi State in 2001.
 

Dr. 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 given recitals, master classes, and lectures in the United States, Brazil, Mexico, Portugal, Costa Rica, England and Spain, including national and international conferences such as, the College Music Society, International Villa-Lobos Conference, London International Piano Symposium, LIII Música en Compostela, and International Double Reed Society. During the 2015 summer, Dr. Sebba spent 6 weeks as a consultant, teacher and artist for the International Piano Performance Examination Committee in Taiwan, where she evaluated over 1,300 students.

She is on the board of the Golden Triangle Music Forum as Secretary and District Audition Chair for Pre-College Evaluations and is currently in the Mississippi Arts Commission Artist Roster and Fellow. Dr. Sebba serves as Professor of Piano, Theory and Ear Training and is MSU Piano Area Coordinator for the Department of Music.