Diego Castro Magas joins Orpheus Instituut as Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellow
News March 13, 2025Orpheus Instituut is proud to announce that Diego Castro Magas has joined our team through the prestigious Marie Skłodowska-Curie (MSCA) Postdoctoral Fellowship. As part of this esteemed fellowship, Diego will collaborate closely with Paulo de Assis, Principal Investigator at Orpheus Instituut, to conduct innovative research at the intersection of contemporary music performance and analysis.
Diego Castro Magas, a professor and researcher from the Catholic University of Chile, has been awarded funding through the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme. As a Marie Sklodowska-Curie postdoctoral fellow, he will engage in his research at Orpheus Instituut under the expert guidance of Paulo de Assis. Diego is well-established in the field, holding responsibilities for performance courses, as well as courses on Music Analysis and Practice as Research at his home institution.
The primary focus of Diego’s work at Orpheus Instituut will be on REPaMS, an innovative project that stands for Radically Embodied Performance as Musical Structure. Based on the premise that performers do not merely reproduce but create musical structures, the REPaMS project reimagines performer creativity as a radically embodied process. In this process, notations, instruments, bodies, artistic practices, and additional non-musical elements interact to instantiate musical structures. This research will explore the complex relationship between performance and composition in contemporary guitar music, with the aim of advancing our understanding of the embodied nature of musical structures.
The outcomes of this project aim to redefine the role of the performer, with a focus on the body as an integral extension of musical form. By integrating cutting-edge research methodologies and performance practices, REPaMS will offer valuable insights for musicians, composers, and musicologists, potentially transforming the way contemporary music performance is understood and practised.
REPaMS aims to bridge analytical and embodied perspectives, exerting a profound impact on artistic and research practices, formats for presenting artistic research outputs, and performance pedagogy.Diego Castro Magas - Postdoctoral fellow
Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral fellowships supports researchers holding a PhD who wish to carry out their research activities abroad, acquire new skills and develop their careers.
We look forward to Diego's arrival at Orpheus Instituut and the significant contributions his research will bring to the field of contemporary music performance and analysis.
