Upcoming Events
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. Submit a new event to be added to this list by clicking here.
37th Annual Music Theory Forum
Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL
Pop Personae: Performing and Negotiating Identities in Popular Music
Bayreuth, Germany
2020 Indiana University Annual Symposium of Research in Music
Jacobs School of Music, Bloomington, INThe Indiana University Graduate Theory Association is pleased to announce its 2020 Symposium of Research in Music to take place Friday and Saturday, February 21 and 22, in Ford-Crawford Recital Hall on the Bloomington campus of Indiana University. We are very happy to welcome Professor Stephen…
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Esoteric Music, Music Performance, and Music Research Symposium
Nazareth College, Rochester NYThis symposium seeks to bring together music scholars, performers, and teachers with a sincere interest in the intersection of music and esoteric ideas and practices.
Yale Graduate Music Symposium
Yale University, New Haven, ConnecticutThe Yale Graduate Music Symposium is a biennial conference, organized and hosted by the graduate students of the Department of Music at Yale University, dedicated to showcasing student research from around the country.
Beyond: Microtonal Music Festival 2020
University of Pittsburgh Department of Music, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania
CIRCULATIONS Symposium
University of Chicago, Chicago, IllinoisThe CHIME Studio (Chicago Integrated Media Experimental Studio) at the University of Chicago will be hosting CIRCULATIONS, a symposium on live audio feedback in art, February 28-29, 2020. The symposium will include a number of performances and sound installations, as well paper sessions and…
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Texas Society for Music Theory 42nd Annual Meeting
University of Houston, Houston, TexasThe Texas Society for Music Theory will hold its 42nd annual meeting at the University of Houston in Houston, TX, February 28-29, 2020. The meeting will be held jointly with the Southwest Chapter of the American Musicological Society and concurrently with the festival entitled Beethoven 250…
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South-Central Society for Music Theory
Nashville, TennesseeThe 2020 meeting of the South-Central Society for Music Theory will be held at Vanderbilt University in Nashville, TN, from February 28th–March 1st. We will meet jointly with CMS-South. The theme of this year’s conference is “Improvisation: Science, Practice and Pedagogy.”
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Midwest Graduate Music Consortium
University of Iowa, Iowa City, IowaThe 24th annual meeting of the Midwest Graduate Music Consortium will take place March 6-7 at the University of Iowa in Iowa City, Iowa. This conference will showcase original graduate scholarship and performances, and seeks to interrogate “Music(s) at the Margins” of graduate study. This year’s…
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Rutgers University Musicological Society (RUMS) 2020 Graduate Student Music Conference
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, New JerseyThe sixth annual Rutgers University Musicological Society (RUMS) Graduate Student Music Conference will take place on Sunday, March 8th, 2020 from 9 AM to 6 PM, at Rutgers University in New Brunswick, NJ. The conference provides a platform for graduate students in various sub-disciplines,…
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A Powerful Force: Women in Music
Ball State University, Muncie, IndianaAugust 26, 1920, is an important date in women’s history. It is the date in which the 19th Amendment to the United States Constitution was ratified and signed into law. This important amendment made it illegal for federal and state governments to deny citizens of the United States the right to…
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CUNY Graduate Students in Music Conference: "Musical Intersections"
New York City, New YorkThe Graduate Students in Music Conference (GSIM) is an annual academic conference run by a committee of graduate students in the music program at The Graduate Center, CUNY. The conference generally takes place in the spring, with a new theme or focus topic every year. Presentations at the…
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Music Theory Southeast
Appalachian State University Boone, North CarolinaThis conference is a joint meeting of Music Theory Southeast, the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast & Caribbean Chapter, the College Music Society Mid-Atlantic Chapter, and the American Musicological Society Southeast Chapter. The program committees for these societies encourage cross-…
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UConn Graduate Music Conference Storrs
ConnecticutThe University of Connecticut Department of Music is proud to announce the first annual UConn Graduate Music Conference. Will Mason - Keynote Speaker
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Mindfulness Workshop for Musicians
Bloomington, INLearn strategies for increasing focus, releasing unwanted stress, and enhancing your creativity as a teacher and performer through Mindfulness-Based Wellness and Pedagogy (MBWP). Our three-day (MBWP) workshops are research-based and taught by leading experts in the field of mindfulness and music…
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2020 Annual Meeting of the Rocky Mountain Society for Music Theory (RMSMT)
University of Northern Colorado, Greely, ColoradoThe Rocky Mountain Music Scholars Conference will be held on March 27 and 28, 2020, in the Campus Commons of the University of Northern Colorado, in Greeley, CO. This conference is the annual, joint meeting of the Rocky Mountain Chapters of the American Musicological Society and the Society for…
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Biennial student conference, "Conversations in Music."
University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music (CCM), OhioThe Music Theory & Musicology Society at CCM is pleased to announce its eighth biennial student conference, “Conversations in Music.”
The conference will be held in conjunction with the Joseph and Frances Jones Poetker Thinking About Music Lecture Series featuring keynote speakers…
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