Miguel Santos is Director of the Anglo-Portuguese Cultural Relations Programme at the Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation’s UK Branch. He is responsible for the promotion of contemporary Portuguese culture in the United Kingdom and Republic of Ireland.
He is Director of the hugely successful annual Atlantic Waves, London International Festival of Exploratory Music, which takes place in London, and compiles the CD series “Exploratory Music from Portugal”, which is distributed every year with major UK music magazines. He also presents a number of shows (Musa Lusa, Sleeping Dogs Lie, Atlantic Waves), on Resonance FM, London’s first radio art station. He is a member of the Executive Committee of the Anglo-Portuguese Society, sits on the Advisory Board of Resonance FM and was a Board member of the Portuguese Arts Trust and of the Korean Cultural Promotion Agency. Miguel is a member of the voting panel for the Album of the Year Award, part of the BBC Radio 3 Awards for World Music; and is a founding member of musica.pt, a Portuguese music export umbrella organisation.
Before moving to London, Miguel was a music journalist for several leading Portuguese newspapers, a founder director of a music record label and distribution company, a sound designer, a musician, and a radio producer.
He was a PhD scholar at the University of Westminster, and holds a Master of Arts in Arts Policy and Management from City University, a BSc in Statistics and Information Management from Lisbon University, and a BA in Film Studies from Lisbon’s Escola Superior de Teatro e Cinema. |
