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 Peer Learning Programs
This year's workshops will be led by Anne Danielsen and Frank Lehman.
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2025 Graduate Student Workshops
This year's workshops will be led by Jennifer Iverson and Braxton D. Shelley.
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McGill Music Graduate Symposium 2025
McGill University, MontrealThe McGill Music Graduate Students’ Society (MGSS) is pleased to announce its thirty-seventh annual Symposium, which will be held March 21–23, 2025 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…
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Music Theory Midwest
OnlineMusic Theory Midwest is pleased to announce a partnership with the Music Theory Society of the Mid-Atlantic and the South Central Society for Music Theory on a multi-year rotation of online spring conferences. We are committed to ensuring that music theory scholars have access to one online or…
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Music and Cultural Mobility in the 20th Century. Ernst Krenek, Arnold Schoenberg, and their contemporaries
Arnold Schoenberg Center, Vienna, AustriaThe 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, ViennaThe 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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Virtuosity in the Music of György Ligeti
Cluj-Napoca, RomaniaVirtuosity plays an important part in the music of György Ligeti. His concertos require extremely versatile soloists, yet the same applies to the performers of his works for keyboard instruments, his chamber music and even the orchestral pieces. Ligeti’s Piano Études in particular can serve as…
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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 YorkThis 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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Music Theory Pedagogy Summer Graduate Student Workshop
University of Missouri – Kansas CityAre you a graduate student (at any level, including ABD) eager to develop your teaching skills and pedagogical approaches? Then consider joining us for an intensive 3-day "music theory pedagogy bootcamp" at the University of Missouri-Kansas City (UMKC) sponsored by the Gail Boyd de…
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Call for Papers: Music and the Moving Image XXI
New York UniversityThe 21st iteration of the annual Music and the Moving Image Conference invites abstracts for paper presentations that explore the relationship between the vast universe of moving images (film, television, streaming media, video games, and advertisements) and that of music and sound. We encourage…
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Timbre and Orchestration Summer School
McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaThe Analysis, Creation, and Teaching of Orchestration (ACTOR) Project is pleased to announce its third Timbre and Orchestration Summer School (TOSS 2025), scheduled for June 3-7 at McGill University in Montréal, QC, Canada. This edition will be linked with the Timbre and Orchestration in Popular…
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Theorizing African American Music
Emory University, Atlanta GAWe are pleased to announce the third meeting of “Theorizing African American Music.” TAAM-Emory will feature paper sessions, a keynote by Horace Maxile, and two evening concerts on June 5 and 7.
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Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song
McGill University, Montreal, QC, CanadaTimbre and orchestration are essential aspects of musical experience in any culture or style. They enable us to effortlessly identify different genres of music and are particularly important in popular musics. This centrality is reflected in Timbre and Orchestration in Popular Song (TOPS), a…
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Transitions: A Pedagogy Workshop for Evolving Music Theory Curricula
NYU Steinhardt, New York, NYWe warmly invite all members of our community to join us at NYU from June 6–8 for our summer workshop, Transitions: A Pedagogy Workshop for Evolving Music Theory Curricula.
Hearing the Virtual Cue: An Online Conference on Theme Park Music and Sound
VirtualMusic and sound are critical elements for shaping the theme park experience. The burgeoning field of scholarship in this area has forged a path for further study of the musical materials and sonic qualities of themed experiences, including sonic/musical design in theme park attractions and…
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music & online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem
Nova University, LisbonWe are pleased to announce that registration is now open for the 'music & online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem’ conference, taking place on 19–21 June 2025 at FCSH, Nova University Lisbon. We have a wonderful programme lined up, the full extent of which we look forward to…
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music and online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem
NOVA University, Lisbon and livestreamThe Music and Online Cultures Research Network (MOCReN) is delighted to announce the programme for its upcoming ‘music and online cultures in a changing platform ecosystem’ conference, taking place at NOVA University Lisbon, 19–21st June 2025.
23rd Annual Plenary Conference of the Society for Musicology
Ireland University College DublinWe are delighted to announce that Esteban Buch (Ecole des hautes études en sciences sociales, Paris) will deliver the keynote address. Proposals are invited from all areas of musical scholarship, including – yet not restricted to – historical musicology, ethnomusicology, popular music studies,…
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North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
Wayne State University, Detroit, MichiganThe program committee for the 2025 North American Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music invites proposals for presentations on topics related to the “long” nineteenth century. The conference will be held Wednesday through Friday, June 25–27, at Wayne State University in Detroit, Michigan.
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