Luísa Correia Castilhoreceived her PhD in Music and Musicology from the University of Évora in 2009). She gained her Master's degree in Musical Sciences from the University of Coimbra, with a dissertation on music at the Cathedral of Castelo Branco. She also has a Degree in Musical Sciences from the Universidade Nova de Lisboa and attended the General Singing and Piano Course at the Castelo Branco's Conservatory. She works as Coordinating Professor at the Higher School of Applied Arts of the Castelo Branco Polytechnic Institute. She is a member of the Ethics Committee of the IPCB and CESEM, representative of ESART of GAENEE (Office of Support for Students with Special Educational Needs) and Vice-president of the Technical-Scientific Council of ESART. She is an integrated member of CESEM - Center for Sociology and Musical Aesthetics Studies and a contributing member of Age.comm - Interdisciplinary Research Unit - Aging Communities. She participated in congresses, courses, seminars and conferences, national and international, within the scope of musicology and education. She has published articles in national and international magazines. Her areas of interest are: Music, Music Teaching, Music Didactics, Musicology, Musical Iconography.
Rui Sampaio Diasis acomposer, media artist and researcher from Braga, Portugal. He holds a PhD in Digital Media and a master's degree in Multimedia from the University of Porto, and a degree in Composition from the School of Music and Performing Arts of the Polytechnic Insitute of Porto.He serves as an adjunct Professor at the School of Applied Arts of the Polytechnic University of Castelo Branco - Portugal, where he leads the program in Electronic Music and Musical Production and the master's degree in Production for Digital Media. Integrated researcher at TECHN&ART - Technology, restauration and Arts Enhancement Center. His topics include: computer music, technologies for music creation and sound design and the creation of interactive multimedia artworks. He presented his work in several countries, and at several conferences including ICMC, SMC, CMMR, SigGraph Asia, ARTECH, and ARTEFACTO.
Luzia Aurora Rochastudied Musicology in Lisbon (Portugal) and Innsbruck (Austria), and gained a PhD in Musicology from the Universidade NOVA de Lisboa in 2012. She is currently a researcher at the CESEM, NOVA FCSH; she also coordinates the Work Group on Musical Iconography from ARLAC/IMS and the Musical Iconography Thematic Line from CESEM. Her work spans the fields of Musicology, Musical Iconography, Organology, Semiotics and Cultural Studies with a focus on issues of production, reception, cataloguing of sources and cultural transfer. She has taught at several higher education and university institutions. Luzia Aurora Rocha received a Merit Prize from NOVA University (1999) and benefited from a PhD grant (FCT, 2006) and two post-doctoral research grants (The Orient Foundation, 2015; CESEM, 2017) before she applied successfully for a contract as a researcher (2019-to date). She is the author and editor of several books. Her work has appeared in peer-reviewed and web-of-science indexed journals. She presented her work, by invitation and as a keynote speaker, in international conferences held in Mexico, Brazil, Cuba, USA, Spain, Italy, Switzerland, Turkey, Russia, China and Japan. She is also an external consultant for the European Union in the fields of Culture and Heritage.
António de Sousa Diasis a composer, multimedia artist, performer and researcher. He holds a doctorate in Aesthetics, Sciences and Technologies of the Arts, a degree in Composition and has been active in composing, research and teaching. His work covers a variety of genres, including instrumental, electroacoustic and mixed genres, as well as music for cinema and audiovisuals, including fiction, documentary and animation. He has also worked in performance, musical theatre and cross-disciplinary forms. He was a member of the ColecViva group and has collaborated with Grupo Música Nova since 1992. He has also been involved in multimedia, installation and visual creation, and in the preservation of musical heritage, as reflected in the recovery of musical works by composers such as Jorge Peixinho, Constança Capdeville or Jean-Claude Risset. Currently, he serves as an Associate Professor at the Department of Multimedia Art of the Faculty of Fine Arts of the University of Lisbon. He is also a member of the Research Group in Multimedia Art of the Research and Study Centre in Fine Arts (CIEBA-GIAM).
