Rui Magno Pinto is a researcher at the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music (CESEM - NOVA FCSH) and a member of Caravelas group and of the Internationale Gesellschaft fur Erforschung und Forderüng der Blasmusik (IGEB). He is an invited assistant professor at Universidade NOVA de Lisboa (Department of Musicology, NOVA FCSH) and at Universidade do Minho (Department of Music, UM ELACH). He earned all his academic training in Musicology from Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, where he obtained his PhD in 2023, with a dissertation on the emergence of a symphonic culture in Lisbon during the Liberal Period (1846-1911) and his Masters in 2010, with a dissertation on Lisbon's concert life and the soloist repertoire of Portuguese composer-performers, from 1821 to 1870. He has received 2 awards and/or honors from NOVA and NOVA FCSH. He participated in several research projects on opera in Portugal, the national wind band movement, terminology of musical instruments in Portugal and Brazil, and the socio-professional condition of the Portuguese musicians. He has been additionally active since 2016 in artistic programs for social inclusion, as a mentor and artistic director of multy-year projects focusing on the musical learning and ensemble practice of the blind and deaf and their acessibility to the arts, as well as on the well-care of children and young in deviant social environments. His main areas of interest are nineteenth-century concert life, instrumental music and music criticism in Portugal; Portuguese winds lutherie; participatory arts; music, disability and social care in the Liberal Period in Portugal. He has published in Portugal and abroad on Lisbon's and Madeira's nineteenth-century concert life and instrumental music, Portuguese wind band music and institutions, as well as on symphonic, wind band, chamber and solo works by Portuguese composers from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, of which he produced several critical editions, recently premiered and recorded by acclaimed Portuguese orchestras and ensembles. He is a member of the Scientific Committee of the "Revista Portuguesa de Educação Artística", a member of the Advisory Board of IGEB, and a consultant in several archival projects of preservation and dissemination of Portuguese musical patrimony.