Santiago Ruiz Torres

Santiago Ruiz Torres holds a PhD in musicology by the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as the degrees in Piano and Choral conducting. At the moment, he is Lecturer at the University of Salamanca; from 2011 to 2018 in the area of Didactics of Music, and from 2018 onwards in the area of Musicology. Between 1999 and 2007 he has been music teacher at the Escolanía de la Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caídos, one of Spain’s most prestigious children’s Gregorian chant choirs. He has been research guest in the universities of Würzburg (2009 and 2010), Nova Lisboa (2015 and 2016), Murcia (2015) and Talca (2017). His main line of research is Iberian plainchant from the 12th to the 19th centuries, a subject he has approached from different perspectives: cataloguing of sources, analysis and interpretation of the repertoire, music theory and notation. He is currently co-principal investigator of the research project “Spanish Early Music Manuscript Project II” (Ministry of Science and Innovation of the Government of Spain, Ref. PID2021-123967NB-I00), as well as external consultant in the research project “Echoes from the Past: Unveiling a Lost Soundscape with Digital Analysis – ECHOES” (FCT, Ref. 2022.01957.PTDC). Since its foundation in 2015, he is coordinator of Gregorian chant sources in the database Musica Hispana. Spanish Early Music Manuscripts – SEMM (http://musicahispanica.eu/), part of the international network Cantus Index.