Hélder Bruno Martins

Hélder Bruno Martins (Coimbra, 1976) – ethnomusicologist, researcher, adjunct professor at the School of Education, Polytechnic Institute of Coimbra (ESEC-IPC), senior consultant and expert in cultural and creative industries, musician (composer and pianist).
He holds a PhD in Ethnomusicology from the University of Aveiro (2020), an MA in Music Sciences from the University of Coimbra (2005), and a BA in Music Education from ESEC-IPC (1999).

As a senior consultant and expert in cultural and creative industries, he serves as an external specialist for the Directorate-General for the Arts (DGARTES) – member of monitoring and evaluation committees; consultant to the Camões Institute (co-author of the course “Music and Society in Portugal in the 20th and 21st Centuries”); researcher and project developer at Cherry Blossom – Art & Culture Business Consulting; and associate consultant at Tom Fleming Creative Consultancy, among other organisations and institutions such as CCDR-Norte, CESO Development Consultants, PROCULTURA, the University of Cape Verde, Eduardo Mondlane University (Mozambique), the Ministry of Tourism of Guinea-Bissau, as well as various Portuguese municipalities and public and private institutions in the fields of culture, tourism, and the cultural and creative industries.

As a researcher, he inaugurated jazz studies in Portugal (Master’s dissertation at the University of Coimbra, 2005), devised a decision-support methodology for defining prosperity strategies (“ecocracy”), and has conducted studies in the fields of music, culture and creativity; music, the individual and society; music, culture and economy.

 

He is the author of some articles, conference papers, prefaces, books, and book-CDs, notably Jazz em Portugal (1920–1956) (Almedina, 2006) and, more recently, “É jazz quando me chegam lágrimas aos olhos”. José Duarte (1938-2023) (Cordel D’Prata, 2024), published with the support of the University of Aveiro, the Centre for Jazz Studies, INET-md, and the Portuguese Society of Authors.

As a researcher, he inaugurated jazz studies in Portugal (Master’s dissertation at the University of Coimbra, 2005), devised a decision-support methodology for defining prosperity strategies (“ecocracy”), and has conducted studies in the fields of music, culture and creativity; music, the individual and society; music, culture and economy.

 

He is the author of some articles, conference papers, prefaces, books, and book-CDs, notably Jazz em Portugal (1920–1956) (Almedina, 2006) and, more recently, “É jazz quando me chegam lágrimas aos olhos”. José Duarte (1938-2023) (Cordel D’Prata, 2024), published with the support of the University of Aveiro, the Centre for Jazz Studies, INET-md, and the Portuguese Society of Authors.