Paulo Augusto Castagna

Paulo Castagna holds a Licentiate degree (1981) and a Bachelor's degree (1982) in Biological Sciences from the University of São Paulo, a Licentiate degree in Arts Education with a concentration in Music from the University of São Paulo (1987), a Masters degree in Arts from the University of São Paulo (1992), a PhD in Social History from the University of São Paulo (2000), and a Livre-Docência (Habilitation) in the History of Music in Brazil from the São Paulo State University (UNESP) in 2022. He completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the University of Jaén, Spain (2013), and is currently engaged in a postdoctoral project at the University of São Paulo (20232026). He has been a professor and researcher at São Paulo State University Júlio de Mesquita Filho (UNESP) since 1994. His expertise is in musicology, with a focus on research, publication, and teaching in the following areas: musicology, music history, Brazils musical heritage, sacred music, research and management of historical music collections, and thematic cataloging. His work is mainly dedicated to Brazilian historical music, especially musical activities in Brazil from the 16th century to the early 20th century, with emphasis on sacred music in the state of Minas Gerais during the 18th and 19th centuries. His research prioritizes editorial and archival work, historical and liturgical studies, and the organization of texts, documents, score collections, and related information. He has contributed as a guest author to the launch of six journals in the field of Arts: Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Musicologia (São Paulo, 1995), Brasiliana (Rio de Janeiro, 1999), Revista do Conservatório de Música da UFPel (Pelotas, 2008), Revista Portuguesa de Musicologia, Nova Série (Lisbon, 2014), Arteriais (Belém, 2015), and the Revista Digital de Música Sacra Brasileira (São Paulo, 2018). He has held research fellowships from FUNARTE, CNPq, FAPESP, and the VITAE Foundation. He is the leader of the NOMOS Musicology Research Group of the UNESP Institute of Arts (a CNPq research group) and coordinates the Laboratory for Conservation, Archiving, and Music Editing at UNESP. He has also been actively involved in training researchers (undergraduate, master's, doctoral, and postdoctoral levels) and organizing academic events since 1991. He served as general coordinator of the 24th ANPPOM Congress (2014), scientific committee coordinator for the 30th (2020) and 31st (2021) ANPPOM Congresses, and has been a coordinator of Working and Thematic Groups (GTs and STs) at ANPPOM since 2016. He also coordinated the Historical Musicology Meetings in Juiz de Fora (20002008) and was one of the founders and coordinators of the Latin American Musicology Symposia (19972000). He was the tutor of the UNESP PET/Music program (20002004) and has served on several university committees at both the Rectorate and the Institute of Arts at UNESP. He has been a CNPq research fellow since 2007 and is currently developing the project Descriptions and Studies of Music in Indigenous Communities in Brazil, Produced in the 18th and 19th Centuries for the 20252029 period. He received a FAPESP Regular Grant for the project Music in the City of São Paulo (18271853) (20202021). From 2001 to 2020, he was part of the team at the Music Museum of Mariana (Minas Gerais), where he coordinated the Acervo da Música Brasileira project (20012003) and the Digitization of the Dom Oscar de Oliveira Collection project (20142017). Since 2013, he has been a member of the Advisory Board of F-CEREM (José Maria Neves Center for Musicological Reference Foundation, São João del-Rei). He coordinated the Project for the Treatment (organization, coding, and inventory) of the music collection of the São Paulo Conservatory of Drama and Music (19062006), funded by a FAPESP Regular Grant for the 20232025 period. He also coordinates the Laboratory for Conservation, Archiving, and Music Editing at the UNESP Institute of Arts. (Source: Lattes Curriculum)