Luís Miguel Santos

LUÍS MIGUEL SANTOS is a Ph.D. Candidate in Musicology at the NOVA School of Social Sciences and Humanities, Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, having been awarded a Doctoral Grant by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology. His research, supervised by Prof. Dr. Paulo Ferreira de Castro, is focused on symphonic music in Lisbon during the period 1910-1933. He studied at the National Conservatory of Lisbon, having concluded the Piano Course (2006), and graduated in Musicology from the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities, New University of Lisbon (2007). In 2010 he obtained, in the same university, the Master of Arts degree in Musicology, with a thesis entitled "The Ideology of Progress in the Discourse of Ernesto Vieira and Júlio Neuparth (1880-1919)". Since 2007, he is a Collaborator at the CESEM | Research Centre for the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, based at the New University of Lisbon. In this context, he was, from 2007 to 2010, a research fellow in the project “The Teatro de S. Carlos: Performing Arts in Portugal”, funded by the Portuguese Foundation for Science and Technology, and currently is a member of the Research Group in Critical Theory and Communication.