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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Performing Classics Today: The Role of the Performer in the Actualization of Music

Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena, Italy)

The international conference “Performing Classics Today: The Role of the Performer in the Actualization of Music” will be held at Accademia Musicale Chigiana (Siena, Italy), from December 4-6, 2024. The official languages of the conference are English and Italian. A selection of the presented…

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Call for papers for Súmula: Revista de teoría y análisis musical

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Cascade Song Festival

Eugene, Oregon

We are pleased to solicit proposals for the inaugural Cascade Song Festival, a weekend devoted to the study and performance of song. The organizers are music theorist Stephen Rodgers (University of Oregon) and musicologist Stephen Rumph (University of Washington), along with sopranos Camille…

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Music Theory/Genre Theory

University of Texas at Austin

Recent years have witnessed renewed interest in questions of musical genre, ranging from thinkpieces on whether genre is irrelevant or stubbornly persistent in the 21st century, to critiques directed at the gatekeeping function that genre has historically served within the music industry. While…

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Sixth International Schenker Symposium

University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan

The University of Michigan School of Music, Theatre & Dance and the International Forum for Schenkerian Research are pleased to announce the Sixth International Schenker Symposium, which will be held on the University of Michigan campus, Ann Arbor, Michigan, March 7-8, 2025. The conference…

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Music Theory Society of New York State

Fordham University (NY, NY)

The 54th Annual Meeting of the Music Theory Society of New York State will take place April 5–6, 2025 at Fordham University next to Lincoln Center. More details will be announced later this year.

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Music Biennale Zagreb Conference: Broken Relationships

Zagreb, Croatia

Keynote Speakers

  • Andrea F. Bohlman (The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, USA) 
  • Dalibor Davidović, “Nikša Gligo and John Cage––The Chronicle of a Friendship” (University of Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia) 
  • Peter J. Schmelz (Johns Hopkins…
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CFP International Conference "A Tribute to Georges Delerue (1925-1992)"

University of Evry Paris-Saclay, France

CALL FOR PAPERS
« Au creux du souvenir… trois petites notes de musique ». A Tribute to Georges Delerue (1925-1992)
International Conference organized by Chloé Huvet (Université d’Évry Paris-Saclay) and Jérôme Rossi (Université Lumière Lyon 2)
Hosted by the University of Évry…

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North American Conference on Video Game Music

Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland OH (with options to attend/present virtually)

Scholars are invited to submit proposals for the twelfth North American Conference on Video Game Music, which will take place April 26–27, 2025 at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, OH and virtually. The conference organizing and program committee is composed of Pete Smucker (program…

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Music and Cultural Mobility in the 20th Century. Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schoenberg, and their contemporaries

Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna, Austria

The concept of Cultural Mobility draws upon ideas from the field of Mobility Studies to reconceptualise the ways we traditionally think about culture and works of art. It encompasses not only the mobility or migration of people, but also of artworks and genres, practices and concepts, techniques…

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Music and Cultural Mobility in the 20th Century. Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schoenberg, and their contemporaries

Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna

The concept of Cultural Mobility draws upon ideas from the field of Mobility Studies to reconceptualise the ways we traditionally think about culture and works of art. It encompasses not only the mobility or migration of people, but also of artworks and genres, practices and concepts, techniques…

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Symposium on Music, Sound, and Antisemitism

Center for Jewish History in New York City on 28–29 May 2025, followed by a Zoom conference scheduled for June 3–4, for those unable to travel to New York

This symposium, co-sponsored by the American Society for Jewish Music’s Jewish Music Forum and The Barry S. Brook Center at the CUNY Graduate Center, invites proposals that consider the historical and contemporary intersections between music, sound, and antisemitism. It is now more important…

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