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.
MusCan Annual Conference 2020
Western University, London, CanadaThe Canadian University Music Society (MusCan) will hold its annual conference in conjunction with Congress 2020 from June 3rd - 5th, 2020, at Western University, Don Wright Faculty of Music in London, Ontario. We acknowledge that the Western University campus is situated on the traditional…
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21st Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music
University of British Columbia, VancouverThe 21st Biennial International Conference on Nineteenth-Century Music will take place at the University of British Columbia, Vancouver (Canada), from June 18 to June 20, 2020. The keynote speaker will be Professor Emanuele Senici, University of Rome “La Sapienza.”
Music, Theory, and Their Sources
Newberry Library, Chicago ILMUSIC, THEORY, AND THEIR SOURCES
The Early Music Analysis Interest Group of the Society for Music Theory is proud to announce their third biennial conference, co-sponsored with the Newberry Library’s Center for Renaissance Studies.
Dates: Thursday, June 18–Saturday, June 20, 2020…
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The Neurosciences and Music VII
Aarhus, DenmarkThe Mariani Foundation for Paediatric Neurology announces The Neurosciences and Music - VII congress to be held in Aarhus, Denmark, from 19 to 22 June, 2020. The seventh edition of this established series will again gather the main experts from all over the world for the most important…
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Sixth International Conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music
Musée de l’Homme, 17 place du Trocadéro, 75116 Paris, FranceThe sixth international conference on Analytical Approaches to World Music (AAWM 6) will take place in Paris in 2020—a year that marks the tenth anniversary of the AAWM conference series. As AAWM has done in the past, this conference will bring together scholars, composers, and performers to…
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Schumann’s Faust on the Verges of Music Theatre
Ghent University, BelgiumRobert Schumann’s long underestimated “Szenen aus Goethes Faust” (1844–53) for soloists, choir, and orchestra has increasingly been recognized as one of the composer’s masterpieces. Together with Ghent University, the University of Leuven, and the University of Toronto, Opera Ballet Vlaanderen…
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International Conference on Musical Form
Copthorne Hotel, Newcastle upon Tyne, UKThe Society for Music Analysis Formal Theory Study Group invites proposals for the International Conference on Musical Form. For at least the last 25 years, music theory has witnessed remarkable developments in this area. This renewed interest, referred to as the ‘new Formenlehre’, has stemmed…
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North American British Music Studies Association (NABMSA) Biennial Conference
Illinois State University, Normal, IllinoisThe North American British Music Studies Association invites proposals for the Ninth Biennial NABMSA Conference hosted by Illinois State University from July 23–26, 2020. Presentations on topics related to all aspects of historical and modern British music and musical life throughout Britain,…
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Birmingham Music Analysis Conference (BrumMAC 2020)
University of Birmingham, UKThe Birmingham Music Analysis Conference (BrumMAC 2020), sponsored by the Society for Music Analysis (SMA), will take place on Thurs 23 to Saturday 25 July 2020 at the University of Birmingham. We welcome paper proposals on any aspect of theory or analysis, relating to music of any genre and…
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Beyond Beethoven, 2020-1770 | Cornell University
Cornell University, Ithaca, NYCelebrating the 250th anniversary of Beethoven’s birth, this conference and concert festival explores keyboard culture around the edges of, in the shadows below, on the distant horizon from the monument that is “Beethoven.” To what extent is Beethoven a pole of both attraction and resistance? In…
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Second Dayton Funk Symposium
University of Dayton, Dayton, OH, USAThe University of Dayton Graul Chair in Arts and Languages, in collaboration with the Dayton Funk Music Hall of Fame and Museum Center, the Dayton Philharmonic Orchestra and the Department of Music, is excited to present the second Dayton Funk Symposium.
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International Arnold Schönberg Symposium
Vienna, Austria (Arnold Schönberg Center, Schwarzenbergplatz 6, 1030 Vienna, Austria)The Arnold Schönberg Center in Vienna in cooperation with the Center for Research on Arnold Schönberg and the Viennese School at the Department of Musicology and Performance Studies of the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna is hosting an international symposium from October 15 to…
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Charles Ives’s Concord Sonata at 100: A Symposium
University of Missouri - Kansas City (Kansas City, Missouri)Charles Ives published his Piano Sonata No. 2, “Concord, Mass., 1840–60” in 1920. This celebrated composition, one of Ives’s most formidable achievements, features a dynamic fusion of American Transcendentalism, European classical music, and musical borrowing that helped bring Ives into the…
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The Society for Ethnomusicology – 2020 Annual Meeting (SEM 2020)
Ottawa, Ontario, CanadaThe Society for Ethnomusicology will hold its 65th Annual Meeting on October 22-25, 2020, at the Westin Ottawa Hotel in Ottawa, Ontario, Canada. The meeting will be co-hosted by the Canadian Museum of History, Carleton University, and Queen’s University. A pre-conference symposium, “Musical…
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