Fernando Magre

Fernando de Oliveira Magre is a musicologist, and Full Professor in historical musicology at Espirito Santo College of Music (Brazil). He holds a Ph.D. in Music from State University of Campinas, and a MA in Musicology from São Paulo University, both funded by São Paulo Research Foundation. He also holds a BA in Music Education from State University of Londrina. He is a collaborating researcher at the Center for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM), at NOVA University Lisbon (Portugal), at the Contemporary Music Documentation Coordination at State University of Campinas, and at the Center for Studies in Music and Media (MusiMid), in which he also serves as co-editor at the Brazilian Journal of Music and Media Studies. In 2023, Fernando was awarded second place in the Otto Mayer-Serra Prize for Music Research, offered by the University of California, Riverside, and the Center for Iberian and Latin American Music. In the same year, he was a visiting researcher at the Department of Musicology and Cultural Heritage, University of Pavia, in Cremona (Italy). Currently he develops post-doctoral research at Federal University of Espirito Santo about Brazilian composer Damiano Cozzella, funded by Espírito Santo Research and Innovation Support Foundation (FAPES), and the National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (CNPq). He is a member of the International Musicological Society (IMS), the American Musicological Society (AMS), the Brazilian Musicological Society (ABMUS) and the National Association for Research and Postgraduate Studies in Music (ANPPOM). Some of his research interests are musicology, contemporary music, Brazilian music, archival research in music, musical relations between Brazil and Portugal, music theater and pedagogy of music history.