Digital Culture & AudioVisual Challenges

RAFFAELE LONGO

Composer, music theorist and research manager, Raffaele Longo lives and works between Rome and Brussels. His background encompasses composition, conducting, piano, musicology, music aesthetics and project management. A prize-winner in international competitions for composition and contemporary drama, he is the author of symphonic music, chamber music, music for television and theatre. His works have been published, performed, recorded and produced by prestigious international institutions. Professor of Music Theory at the Italian Higher Music Education System, he has been a visiting professor at the universities of Berlin, Krakow, Vilnius, Tromso, Brussels, Tallinn, Izmir, Tirana, Hanoi and Hong Kong. In recent years, he has been a lecturer, speaker and chairman at major international higher education conferences and congresses (EU, AEC, EAIE, IHPEI, ERACON, FS-BIOTECH, DAAD, SIBMAS).  A specialist in Schenkerian analysis and set theory, his most recent publications focus on musical dramaturgy and deconstruction; Mozart's theatre; semiotics of contemporary music; entrepreneurship, business and the performing arts; leadership; cyber and virtual performance; and Elliott Carter's logico-grammatological approach to harmony. PhD from the prestigious Vrije Free Universiteit Brussel (VUB) and the Koninklijk Conservatorium Brussel (KCB). Expert Speaker in European Commission research programmes - REA, HORIZON 2020 programme, Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions, he has been International Research Manager for the Cooperation & Research Unit of Link Campus University in Rome and Head of the International Affairs Unit of INNEL - National Institute of Neuro Leadership. A senior project manager at various Italian Music Conservatories, he currently manages international research projects in Europe, the Southern Mediterranean and Middle East, the Sahel, the Far East, Latin America, the Balkans and the South Pacific (Fiji Islands).