Rui Magno Pinto

Rui Magno Pinto is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM – NOVA FCSH) and a member of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Erforschung und Forderüng der Blasmusik (IGEB). He is an invited assistant professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (DCM – NOVA FCSH) and at Universidade do Minho (DM ELACH UM). He earned all his academic training in Musicology from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he obtained his PhD in 2023, with a dissertation on the emergence of a symphonic culture in Lisbon during the Liberal Period (1846-1911) and his Masters in 2010, with a dissertation on Lisbon’s concert life and the soloist repertoire of Portuguese composer-performers, from 1821 to 1870. He participated in several research projects on opera in Portugal, the national wind band movement, terminology of musical instruments in Portugal and Brazil, and the socio-professional condition of the Portuguese musicians. He has cooperated with several national orchestras, ensembles and instrumentalists for the premiere of works by Portuguese composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. He has been additionally active since 2016 in artistic programs for social inclusion, as a mentor and artistic director of multy-year projects focusing on the musical learning and ensemble practice of the blind and deaf and their acessibility to the arts, as well as on the well-care of children and young in deviant social environments. His main areas of interest are nineteenth-century concert life, instrumental music and music criticism in Portugal; Portuguese winds lutherie; participatory arts; music, disability and social care in the Liberal Period in Portugal.