Paulo Ferreira de Castro completed a PhD in Musicology from the University of London, Royal Holloway College, with a thesis on the musical implications of Wittgenstein’s philosophy. Currently he is Assistant Professor and fellow researcher of CESEM (Centre for Research on Sociology and Aesthetics of Music) at Lisbon’s Universidade Nova (FCSH). He is co-author of a book on the History of Music in Portugal and of many musicological essays, focusing mainly on Music Aesthetics, Analisys and Dramaturgy. He has held the posts of Artistic Director and Director of Teatro Nacional de S. Carlos (Lisbon Opera) and Chairman of the Portuguese Society for Music Research. Paulo Ferreira de Castro has read papers at national and international conferences and has given guest lectures in Portugal, France, Austria, Finland, Serbia, Spain and Brazil. His current interests as a researcher focused on philosophy of music, semiotics, intertextuality and the ideologies of modernism and postmodernism.
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