[3] Vanzella graduated with a degree in Music in 1985 from the School of Communications and Arts at the University of São Paulo, where she studied under the guidance of pianist Gilberto Tinetti.
In 2005, she completed her doctorate in Piano and Chamber Music at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., USA, guided by pianist Marilyn Neeley.
In 2010, she was appointed a postdoctoral position at UFABC’s Graduate Program in Information Engineering, focusing her research on tone perception in individuals with absolute pitch.
Vanzella regularly delivers lectures at national and international conferences about the relationship between music and the brain.
[10][11][12] In parallel, as part of the University's outreach activities, she develops educational and cultural events for academic and scientific knowledge dissemination, such as the Synaptic Concerts[13] and the cycle of lectures "Neuromusical Talks.