Below is a list of upcoming events that might be of interest to SMT members. You may click on the event title for more information.
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2025 Student Presentation Award Deadline
The SMT Student Presentation Award is given annually to a graduate or undergraduate music student for a scholarly presentation (paper or poster) at the Annual…
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CFP: MusicaIQ Magazine
MusicaIQ, a professional platform for music professionals and educators, is now accepting submissions for Issue #6 of MusicaIQ Magazine, centered on the theme:
“Playing to Your Strengths – Recognizing and Applying Professional Strengths in Music.”
We welcome essays, case studies,…
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Digital Lectures in American Music (2025–2026)
The Society for American Music's Education Committee solicits proposals for a series of online video lectures on American music topics. Designed for general audiences (including, but not limited to, high school and university students, concertgoers, and/or historical societies), these…
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CFP: Digital Lectures in American Music (2025–2026)
The Society for American Music's Education Committee solicits proposals for a series of online video lectures on American music topics. Designed for general audiences (including, but not limited to, high school and university students, concertgoers, and/or historical societies), these…
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Journal of Sonic Studies | Call for Papers – Radical organizing
A “radicle” is the first part of a seedling to emerge, the beginnings of new growth. Similarly, radical practices are fundamental. Around the world, people organize sonic art, media, and design in heterodox ways that challenge hegemonies and nurture community. This radical organizing is the…
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Eastman School of Music summer study-abroad program in Paris
I'm happy to announce the return of the Eastman School of Music's summer study-abroad program in Paris (https://summer.esm.rochester.edu/course/paris/), which will be offered in June 2026 alongside the ManiFeste-2026 festival…
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Call for Proposals: “Ludomusicology and Value” for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games
Call for Proposals: “Ludomusicology and Value” for the Journal of Sound and Music in Games
This Special Issue seeks to bring together contributors from ludomusicology scholarship and beyond to contribute articles on video game music's place, particularly in terms of how game music’s…
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AAWM Special Topics Symposium 2025: Music Theories, Histories, Analysis, and the Musical Cultures of Asia
Cornell UniversityThe year 2025 marks the third installment of the Analytical Approaches to World Musics Special Topics Symposium series, dedicated to the intersections of indigenous and contemporary music theories, music analysis, and diverse musical traditions of Asia. The symposium will be held October 11-14,…
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46th annual New Music Festival
Bowling Green State University’s College of Musical Arts in Bowling Green, OH, USAFestival Dates: October 16–18, 2025
Location: Bowling Green State University (Bowling Green, OH, USA)
Submission Deadline for Proposals: August 8, 2025
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UMBC Livewire Contemporary Music Festival
University of Maryland Baltimore CountyCelebrating Arts+, a year long focus on the arts at UMBC, and the Livewire Contemporary Music Festival, the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC) Department of Music solicits papers and presentations around the theme of “Trailblazers,” a festival and symposium scheduled for October 16-…
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5th Cycle of Webinars of the Sociedad de Análisis y Teoría Musical (SATMUS)
On lineOn October 18, the 6th Cycle of Webinars organized by the Sociedad de Análisis y Teoría Musical (SATMUS) will begin.
This cycle consists of a series of presentations of about 45 minutes on a subject based on an interesting article by the speaker previously published in any medium. This is…
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Artsong and Gender in Dialogue, an online lecture series
OnlineThe Artsong and Gender in Dialogue online lecture series, organized by Maria Behrendt (from the Hannover University of Music, Drama, and Media) and Anna Bredenbach (from the University of Erfurt) is seeking proposals that explore the intersections between art song and gender, including studies…
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“Whose Brahms?” Reception and Uses of Nineteenth-Century Music Up to the Present Day: A Pre-Conference for the 2025 Joint AMS-SMT Annual Meeting
Minneapolis, MNSince at least the nineteenth century, Western concert music has been used by divergent political and social causes as a rallying point, as model, and as a potent communicator of personal and group identities. Brahms's music, for example, has represented the political ideals of Vienna'…
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France: Musiques, Cultures 1798-1914 AMS-SMT pre-conference
MinneapolisThe France: Musiques, Cultures 1789-1918 network is assembling a pre-conference on November 5-6, 2025 before the joint annual meeting of the AMS and SMT in Minneapolis. Proposals for papers, organized panels, workshops, performances, or other activities on any topic relating to French music…
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Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11)
MInneapolisThe Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11) will take place Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday morning, November 6, in Minneapolis, prior to the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. We are seeking proposals concerning new…
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New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11)
MinneapolisThe Eleventh International New Beethoven Research Conference (NBR 11) will take place Wednesday, November 5 and Thursday morning, November 6, in Minneapolis, prior to the annual meeting of the American Musicological Society and Society for Music Theory. We are seeking proposals concerning new…
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The 25th international conference "Principles of Music Composing. Phenomenon of Synthesis"
Vilnius, Lithuania25TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
“PRINCIPLES OF MUSIC COMPOSING: PHENOMENON OF SYNTHESIS”
Dedicated to the 150th anniversary of M. K. Čiurlionis
KEYNOTE SPEAKER: Prof. MICHAEL FINNISSY (Composer, Emeritus Professor of Music, University of Southampton (UK) Fellow of the Royal…
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Pierre Boulez Centenary in Cleveland
Cleveland, OhioContributors submitting papers on any topics concerning Boulez are invited. While papers on sketch studies and score analyses are welcomed, we are especially interested in receiving proposals with historical and socio-cultural approaches shedding light, in a broader sense, on "Boulez in…
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Pierre Boulez Centenary in Cleveland
ClevelandScholarly Conference: "Boulez in America"
Call for Paper deadline extended to July 15, 2025.
We invite proposals for a 20-minute conference paper. Apart from paper presentations, we also encourage the submissions of proposals for 30-minute lecture recitals. Abstracts…
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