Santiago RUIZ-TORRES holds a PhD in Musicology from the Complutense University of Madrid, as well as the degrees in Piano and Choral conducting. Between 1999 and 2007 he was a music teacher at the Escolanía del Valle de los Caídos, one of Spain’s most prestigious children’s Gregorian chant choirs. Until May 2011 he was a research grant holder from the Spanish Ministry of Education (University Professor Training Programme). In May 2013, he completed his doctoral Thesis, titled “Liturgical monophony between the 15th and the 19th century. Tradition, transmission and musical performance through the study of the choirbooks of Segovia Cathedral”. Currently he is a Lecturer at the University of Salamanca; from 2011 to 2018, in the area of Didactics of Music; and from 2018 onwards, in the area of Musicology. His main line of research focuses on Iberian plainsong, from the 12th to 19th centuries; a topic that he has studied from different perspectives: cataloging of sources, analysis and performance of the repertoire, theory and music notation.
