Rui Magno da Silva Pinto

Rui Magno Pinto is a PhD student in Musicology at the Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas of the Universidade Nova de Lisboa (FCSH-NOVA) and a integrated researcher of the Centro de Estudos de Sociologia e Estética Musical (CESEM). His doctoral dissertation, funded by the Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia (FCT) and supervised by Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira de Castro, discusses the “upgrowth of a symphonic culture in Lisbon between 1846 and 1911”. Pinto concluded in 2010 in the same institution his MA in Musicology with a dissertation on virtuosity in wind-instrument praxis in Lisbon between 1821 and 1870. In 2007 he concluded his degree in Musicology. Pinto was a fellow researcher on the following projects funded by FCT and held at CESEM: “Património Musical – Fundação Jorge Álvares” (July to November 2011) and “O Teatro de S. Carlos: as artes performativas em Portugal” (October 2007 to October 2010). Within the scope of his dissertations and other research projects, Pinto had produced more than 70 critical editions of Portuguese opera, symphonic music, sacred music, wind-band music and works for soloist and orchestra/band/piano. Rui Magno Pinto is the artistic director of the following projects, created in the scope of the program Práticas Artísticas para a Inclusão Social of the of the Fundação Calouste Gulbenkian: “Novos Alunos d@ Guilherme Cossoul (Banda Juvenil Guilherme Cossoul)” (Cossoul) and “Filarmónica Enarmonia” (Bengala Mágica). Rui Magno Pinto is an invited teacher at the Department of Musicology at FCSH-NOVA.