Researcher Fernando de Oliveira Magre awarded with the 2022 Otto Mayer-Serra Music Research Award

The researcher Fernando de Oliveira Magre, member of the Contemporary Music Research Group, was awarded second place in the 2022 Otto Mayer-Serra Music Research Award, promoted by the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music at the University of California, Riverside. The Otto Mayer-Serra award selects the best unpublished essays on Iberian and Latin American Music, both in the fields of historical musicology and ethnomusicology. This annual competition honors the memory of the Spanish-Mexican musicologist Otto Mayer-Serra (1904-68) and seeks to continue his legacy of groundbreaking research. Winning articles will be published in the peer-reviewed online journal Diagonal: An Ibero-American Music Review. The jury was formed by professors Eduardo Herrera (Indiana University), Salwa Castelo-Branco (Universidade Nova de Lisboa) and Daniel Castro (University of North Carolina, Greensboro).

Awarded articles

First prize: Francesco Milella (Cambridge University): “Narrativas paralelas: Nuevas metodologías y documentos para una historiografía de la ópera italiana en el México independiente.”

Second Prize: Fernando de Oliveira Magre (Espirito Santo College of Music, Brazil) “Discursos sobre a música-teatro na historiografia da música brasileira: duas obras musicológicas em perspectiva e seus desdobramentos.”

Honorable Mention: Paul G. Feller-Simmons (Northwestern University): “‘Hoy al Portal ha venido:’ La escena del nacimiento y el estilo galante en los villancicos navideños de la catedral de Santiago de Chile (c.1770 – c.1820).”

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