Overview

Miguel Santos Vieira is a highly acclaimed concert pianist and a philosopher. Born in Lisbon

Lisbon

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, Portugal

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, he now lives between the Portuguese Capital and London

London

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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.

Miguel Vieira graduated and completed post-graduate studies in Philosophy

Philosophy

Philosophy is the study of general and fundamental problems, such as those connected with existence, knowledge, values, reason, mind, and language. Philosophy is distinguished from other ways of addressing such problems by its critical, generally systematic approach and its reliance on rational...

 and History of Ideas

History of ideas

The history of ideas is a field of research in history that deals with the expression, preservation, and change of human ideas over time. The history of ideas is a sister-discipline to, or a particular approach within, intellectual history...

 at Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

The Portuguese Faculty of Social and Human Sciences is an organic unit of NOVA University of Lisbon and a legal person under public law, endowed with scientific, pedagogical, administrative and financial autonomy, whose public service mission is to qualify citizens at the highest level...

 of Universidade Nova de Lisboa (2002).

He further was awarded the prestigious Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation

The Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation is a Portuguese private foundation of public utility whose statutory aims are in the fields of arts, charity, education, and science...

 Doctoral Fellowship in the United Kingdom (2007-2010), which allowed him to pursue advanced studies in Philosophy in London.

He performed academic duties as Research Assistant

Research assistant

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 to the Dean of Research of Heythrop College

Heythrop College

Heythrop College is the specialist philosophy and theology constituent college of the University of London situated in Kensington Square, Kensington, London. It offers undergraduate and postgraduate degrees in philosophy, theology and psychology, as well as research in related fields.It was founded...

-University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 (2007-2009) and administrative duties to the Senate House (University of London)

Senate House (University of London)

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 Research Assessment Exercice (2008).

He was awarded a Doctorate of Philosophy from the University of London

University of London

-20th century:Shortly after 6 Burlington Gardens was vacated, the University went through a period of rapid expansion. Bedford College, Royal Holloway and the London School of Economics all joined in 1900, Regent's Park College, which had affiliated in 1841 became an official divinity school of the...

 at a ceremony held at Imperial College London

Imperial College London

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 in December 2010. His areas of expertise are Ancient philosophy

Ancient philosophy

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 and Contemporary philosophy

Contemporary philosophy

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, having specialized in the thought of Aristotle

Aristotle

Aristotle was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great. His writings cover many subjects, including physics, metaphysics, poetry, theater, music, logic, rhetoric, linguistics, politics, government, ethics, biology, and zoology...

 and Heidegger's early philosophical output. He has presented several papers in seminars and international conferences in Portugal and the United Kingdom.

His Doctoral Thesis was published in 2010 in a limited author edition: "The Phenomenology of Aristotle in Heidegger's 'Sein und Zeit'", Óbidos, Várzea da Rainha, Portugal, pp. 487, ISBN:978-989-20-1928-4

He is currently based in the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

Faculty of Social and Human Sciences

The Portuguese Faculty of Social and Human Sciences is an organic unit of NOVA University of Lisbon and a legal person under public law, endowed with scientific, pedagogical, administrative and financial autonomy, whose public service mission is to qualify citizens at the highest level...

 of New University of Lisbon

New University of Lisbon

Universidade NOVA de Lisboa, , also known as NOVA ) was established in 1973 and is the youngest of the three public universities of Lisbon, in Portugal....

 as a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for the History of Culture. He is currently working on a book about Orphism (religion)

Orphism (religion)

Orphism is the name given to a set of religious beliefs and practices in the ancient Greek and the Hellenistic world, as well as by the Thracians, associated with literature ascribed to the mythical poet Orpheus, who descended into Hades and returned...

 in the work of Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen

Sophia de Mello Breyner Andresen was an award-winning Portuguese poet and writer.Sophia, as she is often referred to in Portugal, was born in Porto to a wealthy aristocratic family. She inherited the surname 'Andresen' from her paternal grandfather, a Danish merchant...

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Piano accomplishments

In addition to his academic work, Miguel Vieira has also been giving public piano recitals since he was 11, in Portugal

Portugal

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, Switzerland

Switzerland

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, France

France

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, United Kingdom

United Kingdom

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, and the United States of America. He has appeared on Portuguese and Swiss national television, and radio. He specializes in Rachmaninov, Scriabin, and Schubert.

He studied with Fatima Fraga, and Madalena de Sa-Pessoa at the Lisbon's Music Academy. Miguel Vieira has been a close disciple and friend of the renowned concert pianist and composer, Dr. Leslie Howard

Leslie Howard

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for many years.