The McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) is pleased to announce its thirty-eighth annual Symposium, which will be held March 20–22, 2026 at the Schulich School of Music in Montréal.
We welcome abstracts up to 250 words in length (or 275 words in French) from graduate students in any area of music research, performance, and composition. In addition to the 250-word abstract, up to two pages of supplementary materials (e.g., bibliography, diagrams, and musical examples) may be included in the submission. Abstracts and presentations may be in either English or French.
Paper presentations, posters, lecture-recitals, and other creative forms of presentations are all encouraged. Presentations will be allotted 30-minute time slots, with 20 minutes for the presentation and 10 minutes for questions and discussion.
Please remove all personal identifying information from the text of the proposal and from the two pages of supplementary materials. All submissions must be received by 11:59 pm on December 21, 2025 Eastern Time.
In keeping with the MGSS’s commitment to equity and diversity, we will make every effort to accommodate accessibility requests during the Symposium. To ensure fairness in the evaluation of proposals, all accessibility requests will be solicited after the program committee has made the acceptance decisions.
For more information about the conference or any other related inquiries, please write to Nicolás Medina and Gabriel Wayar at symposium.mgss@gmail.com.