Conference archive

This page is an archive of past conferences in music, starting in 2020. For conferences that took place before 2020, see this page.


 * 1) Media and Communications and Music at Kingston University Present – BTS (방탄소년단) A Global Interdisciplinary Conference Project, London, 4–5 January 2020
 * 2) MusicaFemina International Symposium, Budapest, 8–9 January 2020
 * 3) BFE/RMA Research Students’ Conference, Milton Keynes, 9–11 January 2020
 * 4) Documenting Jazz Conference 2020, Birmingham, UK, 16–18 January 2020
 * 5) SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, Limerick, Ireland, 17–18 January 2020
 * 6) Equality, Diversity and Inclusion in Music Higher Education, London, 24 January 2020
 * 7) II International Conference Wind Bands in Focus: Band Research Paradigms in Spain, Jaén, Spain, 30–31 January 2020
 * 8) ‘Don’t mention the C Word’ – Re-assessing the Meaning and Impact of Censorship in Opera, Leeds, UK, 5 February 2020
 * 9) Annual Meeting of the Society for Christian Scholarship in Music, Waco, Texas, 6–8 February 2020
 * 10) Popular Music: Society, Politics, and History, Strasbourg, 7 February 2020
 * 11) British-Russian Crossroads: Cultural and Historical Exchanges of Words and Music, St Petersburg, 15 February 2020
 * 12) Capitalist Realism: 10 Years On, Huddersfield, UK, 15–16 February 2020
 * 13) Historical Fictions Research Conference 2020, Salzburg, 21–22 February 2020
 * 14) Musical Women in Europe in the Long Nineteenth Century, Manchester, UK, 24–26 February 2020
 * 15) Beethoven 2020: Analytical and Performative Perspectives, Amsterdam, 29 February – 1 March 2020
 * 16) Sondheim@90@Williams, Williamstown, MA, USA, 6–7 March 2020
 * 17) The Construction of National Identity in Music, Murfreesboro, Tennessee, 14–15 March 2020
 * 18) Music Theology Durham: Study Day, Durham, UK, 17 March 2020
 * 19) Transnational approaches and Cosmopolitan localisms. 4th Biennal de Música Isabelina, Madrid, 20–21 March 2020
 * 20) Researching Music – Education – Technology (MET2020), London, 23–24 March 2020
 * 21) Parole del Metastasio – Opera and Emotions in Eighteenth-Century Europe, Madrid, 25–27 March 2020
 * 22) Fail Better: Sharing Challenges and Learning in Classical Music Innovation, Maastricht, 27–28 March 2020
 * 23) Beethoven the European, Lucca, Italy, 27–29 March 2020
 * 24) The Improviser’s Experience; Knowledge, Methodologies, Communication: An RMA Study Day, Huddersfield, UK, 2 April 2020
 * 25) 1st Queer Forum of the LGBTQ+ Music Study Group, York, 3 April 2020
 * 26) Duni: An 18th Century Musician from Matera to the Heart of Europe, Matera, Italy, 3–5 April 2020
 * 27) Joseph Joachim: Identities / Identitäten, Karlsruhe, Germany, 3–5 April 2020
 * 28) Art Readings 2020: New Art Module: Journeys, 6–8 April 2020
 * 29) II Conference on artistic research in music of the Pyrenees, Puigcerdà (Girona), Spain, 9–10 April 2020
 * 30) Research of Young Musicologists, Moscow, 9–11 April 2020
 * 31) Working in Music, Turku, Finland, 15–17 April 2020
 * 32) “Musica practica, musica theoretica” – A Musical Work as a Message, Poznań, Poland, 21–22 April 2020
 * 33) Responses in Music to Climate Change, New York, 21–23 April 2020
 * 34) Early Recordings: The Impacts of a Transformative Technology, London, 23 April 2020
 * 35) Ludo2020: Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, Valletta, Malta, 24–25 April 2020
 * 36) Imperfection as an Aesthetic Idea in Music: Perspectives from Musicology and Artistic Research, Graz, Austria, 6–7 May 2020
 * 37) Fragility of Sounds, Graz, Austria, 8–9 May 2020
 * 38) String Quartets in Beethoven’s Europe, Auckland, 9–10 May 2020
 * 39) The Reformed Theology and Spirituality of Music: From the Reformation to the Present, Enschede, Netherlands, 13–15 May 2020
 * 40) IASPM Benelux International Conference, Antwerp, Belgium, 14–16 May 2020
 * 41) The Motherland Resurrected: Manifestations of Nationalism in Music Since the End of the ‘Short Twentieth Century’, Cambridge, 15 May 2020
 * 42) Fifth Annual Conference in Historical Performance and International Summit of HP Program Directors in Higher Education, Bloomington, Indiana, 15–17 May 2020
 * 43) Low End Theories: Understanding Bass Music and Culture Study Day, Bristol, UK, 16 May 2020
 * 44) Music in Times of the COVID-19 Pandemic, Virtual, 19 May 2020
 * 45) Early Music Conference: “Musicking: Culturally Informed Performance Practices”, Eugene, Oregon, 19–23 May 2020
 * 46) Brain Cognition Emotion Music (BCEM) – The Quartet with a Missing Link, Canterbury, UK, 20–21 May 2020
 * 47) Intersections: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Opera, Cambridge, 21 May 2020
 * 48) Music, Cinema, and Modernism: The Works and Heritage of Kurt Weill between Europe and America, Turin, 22–24 May 2020
 * 49) Journées d’Informatique Musicale 2020 (JIM 2020), Strasbourg, 25–27 May 2020
 * 50) Seventh International Congress: Music and Audio-Visual Culture MUCA, Murcia, Spain, 28–30 May 2020
 * 51) Memory, Identity and the Remediation of Musical Lives, London, 29–30 May 2020
 * 52) University of York Music Education Conference 2020: Learner Voice, York, 29–30 May 2020
 * 53) Music and the Moving Image Conference 2020, New York, 29–31 May 2020
 * 54) Music in the Home: A Virtual Symposium, Online, 1–5 June 2020
 * 55) Urban Nostalgia: The Musical City in the 19th and 20th Centuries, Paris, 3 June 2020
 * 56) Agents and Actors: Networks in Music History, Helsinki, 3–5 June 2020
 * 57) 3rd International Music and Musicology Doctoral Conference, Paris, 4–6 June 2020
 * 58) Pre-Existing Music in Screen-Media: Problems, Questions, Challenges, Cleveland, 5–6 June 2020
 * 59) Early Recordings: Methodologies in Research and Practice, London, 10 June 2020
 * 60) Gendered Representations in 20th Century American Art & Culture, London, 10–11 June 2020
 * 61) The Autoethnography of Composition and the Composition of Autoethnography, Glasgow, 17 June 2020
 * 62) Future Directions of Electroacoustic Music Studies (EMS20), Leicester, UK, 17–20 June 2020
 * 63) 50+ Years of Creative Music: Anthony Braxton – Composer, Multi-Instrumentalist, Music Theorist, Hamburg, 18–20 June 2020
 * 64) Spem in Alium: 450 Years, Oxford, 19–20 June 2020
 * 65) Orchestrating Isolation: Musical Interventions and Inequality in the COVID-19 Fallout, online, 22 June 2020
 * 66) Hidden Figures of Screen Music and Sound, Online, 23–24 June 2020
 * 67) Society for Musicology in Ireland: 18th Annual Plenary Conference, Dublin, 25–27 June 2020
 * 68) SSCM 2020 Virtual Conference, June 26–28 2020.
 * 69) 3rd AEMC Conference on Music, Communication and Performance, Montecassiano, Italy, 27–28 June 2020
 * 70) Schumann’s Faust on the Verges of Music Theatre, Ghent, Belgium, 27–28 June 2020
 * 71) 10th International Workshop on Folk Music Analysis (FMA2020), Aalborg, Denmark, 29 June – 1 July 2020
 * 72) International Conference on Musical Form, Newcastle, UK, 30 June – 1 July 2020
 * 73) Song Studies 2020 – Exploring Interdisciplinary Approaches to Songs and Practices of Singing (1200-today), Ghent, Belgium, 1–3 July 2020
 * 74) Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference 2020, Edinburgh, 1–4 July 2020
 * 75) 2020 Institute for Russian Music Studies Annual Conference, Vipiteno, Italy, 2–5 July 2020
 * 76) RMA-KVNM Postgraduate Symposium in Music Research, Rotterdam, 3–4 July 2020.
 * 77) Religion and Magnificence – Music and Ceremonies at the European Courts in 17th and 18th Centuries, Lisbon, 3–5 July 2020
 * 78) Tzlil Meudcan 2020, Tel Aviv, 4–9 July 2020
 * 79) Leisure Studies Association Annual Conference 2020: Leisure Pasts, Presents and Futures, Manchester, UK, 7–9 July 2020
 * 80) Music and Sonic Art: Sounding Identities, Cambridge, UK, 8–10 July 2020
 * 81) ACMC 2020 : Australasian Computer Music Conference, Canberra, 8–11 July 2020
 * 82) Myriad Materialities: Towards a New Global Writing of Colonial Ports and Port Cities, Berlin, 10–11 July 2020
 * 83) Cross-European Summer School on Musical Ability, Finland, Italy, Poland, and the UK, 15–17 July 2020
 * 84) 19th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music, Birmingham, 15–19 July 2020
 * 85) Music & Eye-Tracking, Frankfurt, 16–17 July 2020
 * 86) Visualising the Unseen: Music in Visual Culture, Prague, 16–18 July 2020
 * 87) Decolonising the Musical University, Edinburgh, 23–24 July 2020
 * 88) Birmingham Music Analysis Conference (BrumMAC 2020), Birmingham, 23–25 July 2020
 * 89) North American British Music Studies Association Ninth Biennial Conference, Illinois, USA, 23–26 July 2020
 * 90) 24th IGEB International Conference on Wind Music, Valencia, Spain, 23–27 July 2020
 * 91) isaScience 2020: Heroes, Canons, Cults. Critical Inquiries, Vienna, 12–16 August 2020
 * 92) Black Opera Research Network Inaugural Event: Black Experiences in Opera, online, 21 August 2020
 * 93) Archaeology of Soundscapes and Soundscapes for Archaeology EAA 2020, Budapest, 26–30 August 2020
 * 94) Doctors in Performance, Tallinn, Estonia, 2–4 September 2020
 * 95) Bootleg Opera and Pirate Queens, Bern, 2–4 September 2020
 * 96) 2nd International Conference on Timbre, Virtual, 3–4 September 2020
 * 97) 15th International Congress on Musical Signification, Barcelona, 4–8 September 2020
 * 98) Beyond the Object and Back: The Role of Collections in Music Museums, London, 6–10 September 2020
 * 99) Sibelius Conference 2020: Sibelius on the Scene, Hämeenlinna, Finland, 7–9 September 2020
 * 100) RMA Annual Conference 2020, London, 8–10 September 2020
 * 101) SEMPRE Autumn Conference: The Role of Music Psychology Research in a Complex World, Leeds, UK, 10–11 September 2020
 * 102) Music and Change Before and After 1990, Vilnius, Lithuania, 10–12 September 2020
 * 103) Audio Mostly 2020, Graz, Austria, 15–17 September 2020
 * 104) 1st Biennial Carl Nielsen Studies Conference, Newcastle, UK, 17–18 September 2020
 * 105) Warsaw Autumn Festival and the Iron Curtain, Warsaw, 17–18 September 2020
 * 106) Beyond Beethoven, 2020-1770, Ithaca, USA, 17–20 September 2020
 * 107) Revisiting Austrian and German Music: from the ‘Spring of Nations’ to the Cold War, and launch of the IAGMR (Institute of Austrian and German Music Research), Guildford, UK, 18–19 September 2020
 * 108) 10th European Music Analysis Congress, Moscow, 21–26 September 2020
 * 109) Vienna Music Business Research Days 2020, Vienna, 21–23 September 2020
 * 110) Young Musicology Belgrade 2020. Shaping the Present by the Future: Ethno/musicology and Contemporaneity, Belgrade, 24–26 September 2020
 * 111) Narrating Musicology: Reviewing the History/Histories of Musicology, Bern, 1–4 October 2020
 * 112) Like, share and subscribe: Youtube, music and cyberculture before and after the new decade, Lisbon, 2–3 October 2020
 * 113) Congress on Sound, Music and Musical Instruments, Castelo Branco, Portugal, 2–4 October 2020
 * 114) Music and the Spanish Civil War, Berlin, 8–10 October 2020
 * 115) Traditional Tunes and Popular Airs, London, 10–11 October 2020
 * 116) SIBE+20 Music and Dance Research – Practices of Social and Political Responsibility, Aveiro, Portugal, 14–17 October 2020.
 * 117) Musical Networking in the ‘Long’ 19th Century, Zagreb, 15–17 October 2020
 * 118) 7th International Conference on Digital Libraries for Musicology (DLfM 2020), Montréal, 16 October 2020
 * 119) Financing Music in Europe from the 18th to the Early 20th Century, Lucca, Italy, 16–18 October 2020
 * 120) Società Italiana di Musicologia 27th Annual Conference, Siena, Italy, 16–18 October 2020
 * 121) Society for Musicology in Ireland: 18th Annual Plenary Conference (Online), 29–31 October 2020
 * 122) Music – Musicology – Interpretation, Belgrade, 22–24 October 2020
 * 123) Workshop: Women in Nineteenth-Century Czech Musical Culture, Prague, 23 October 2020
 * 124) 10th Anniversary International Symposium on Traditional Polyphony, Tbilisi, Georgia, 27–31 October 2020
 * 125) Thanatos in Contemporary Music: from the Tragic to the Grotesque, Cluj-Napoca, Romania (via Zoom), 30–31 October 2020
 * 126) The 21st Century Guitar, Lisbon, 2–5 November 2020
 * 127) Beethoven and the Piano – Philology, Context and Performance Practice, Lugano, Switzerland, 4–6 November 2020
 * 128) Keeping Silent, Listening, Speaking Up: Voice and Silence in Audience-Response to Arts and Literature, Nancy, France, 4–6 November 2020
 * 129) Body and Corporeality in 20th and 21st Century Music, Graz, Austria, 5–6 November 2020
 * 130) Music and Political Democratisation in Late Twentieth Century, Huddersfield, UK, 6 November 2020
 * 131) EDI in Music Studies Network Launch Event, 13 November 2020
 * 132) 2020 AMS-SMT Virtual Annual Meeting, 7–8 and 14–15 November 2020
 * 133) Radio and the Sound of Modernism, Leeds, UK, 10 November 2020
 * 134) Music and Science from Leonardo to Galileo, Lucca, Italy, 13–15 November 2020
 * 135) In Search of Perfect Harmony: Giuseppe Tartini’s Music and Music Theory in Local and European Contexts, Ljubljana and Piran, Slovenia, 16–17 November 2020
 * 136) Principles of Music Composing: Phenomenon of Teleology, Vilnius, Lithuania, 18–20 November 2020
 * 137) ENIM 2020 – 10th Conference on Musical Research, Coimbra, Portugal, 19–21 November 2020
 * 138) “Bach and Italy” International Conference, Online, 22–28 November 2020
 * 139) 1st Biennial International Conference on Acoustics and Vibration (ANV) 2020, 23–4 November 2020
 * 140) XI Meeting for Researchers in Musical Poetics of the 16th, 17th and 18th Centuries – Constructing Beethoven, 23–7 November 2020
 * 141) Musical Works and Cultural Traditions, Bydgoszcz, Poland, 24–25 November 2020
 * 142) Bach and Italy, Turin, 26–28 November 2020
 * 143) 36th Annual Conference on Music in 18th-Century Britain, London, 27 November 2020
 * 144) Musicology and Its Future in Times of Crises, Zagreb, Croatia, 27–28 November 2020
 * 145) ‘Women Are not Born to Compose’: Female Musical Works from 1750 to 1950, Lucca, Italy, 27–29 November 2020
 * 146) Music Education in the 19th Century, online, 3–4 December 2020
 * 147) musichildren’20 | 2nd International Symposium: “Music for and by Children: Perspectives from Composers, Performers and Educators, Aveiro, Portugal, 8–10 December 2020
 * 148) Shakespeare and Music: New Interdisciplinary Perspectives, Universities of Manchester and Huddersfield, 10–11 December 2020
 * 149) Enrique Morente: Memory and Heterodoxy in Flamenco, Granada, 10–12 December 2020
 * 150) Re-envisaging Music: Listening in the Visual Age, Siena, Italy, 10–12 December 2020
 * 151) 12th International Symposium “Music in Society”, Sarajevo, 10–12 December 2020
 * 152) Interrogating Sources: Prokofiev, Words and Music, Metz, France, 11–12 December 2020
 * 153) Music and Resistance, Lucca, Italy, 11–13 December 2020
 * 154) Musicological Expo 2020 (Royal Society for Music History of The Netherlands), online, 12 December 2020
 * 155) Sound Instruments and Sonic Cultures: An Interdisciplinary Conference, Bradford, UK, 15–16 December 2020
 * 156) Sounds of the Pandemic, Florence, 16 December 2020
 * 157) BFE-RMA Research Students’ Conference, Cambridge, 12–14 January 2021
 * 158) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 13 January 2021
 * 159) Louis-Albert Bourgault-Ducoudray (1840–1910): International Conference, Paris, 14–15 January 2021
 * 160) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 21 January 2021
 * 161) SMI/ICTM-IE Postgraduate Conference, online, 22 January 2021
 * 162) Naturalising Sounds: How Instrumental Music is (Made) National, Regensburg, 22–23 January 2021
 * 163) Artistic Research in Performance through Collaboration, online, 28 January 2021
 * 164) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series, online, 28 January 2021
 * 165) 2nd International Congress The Musical Heritage of the Crown of Aragón, Valencia, 28–30 January 2021
 * 166) Sinn und Präsenz in Improvisation, Berlin, 29–31 January 2021
 * 167) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Schimana/Kogler), online, 9 February 2021
 * 168) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Lehmann/Electric Indigo), online, 11 February 2021
 * 169) The Art Song Platform – Art Song out of the Concert Hall, online, 12 February 2021
 * 170) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Sharif/Lessiak), online, 18 February 2021
 * 171) Historical Fictions Research Network 2021, online, 18–21 February 2021
 * 172) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Crispin/Könemann), online, 25 February 2021
 * 173) Society for Christian Scholarship in Music Annual Meeting, Macon, Georgia, USA, 25–27 February 2021
 * 174) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Vaitkevičiūtė/Weiss), online, 4 March 2021
 * 175) Women Leaders in the Contemporary Music Industries, online, 8 March 2021
 * 176) Ruth Gipps: A Centennial Symposium, online, 8 March 2021
 * 177) Fragility of Sounds Online Lecture Series (Fernandez/Morishita), online, 11 March 2021
 * 178) Beyond Sovereignism: New perspectives on Fausto Torrefranca, Rome, 11–13 March 2021
 * 179) Music and Art in Pandemic, online, 18–19 March 2021
 * 180) Music and Audio-Visual Culture MUCA, online, 22–26 March 2021
 * 181) Global Piano Roll Meeting – Prelude 2, online, 27 March 2021
 * 182) PERSONALIA, Sofia, Bulgaria, 13–15 April 2021
 * 183) Technique of Musical Сomposition: Нistorical Avatars, Moscow, 13–15 April 2021
 * 184) Midlands Music Research Network Conference, online, 19–20 April 2021
 * 185) Composing the Historical 2, online (University of Surrey), 21 April 2021
 * 186) Towards 2040: Creating Classical Music Futures, online, 21–22 April 2021
 * 187) Worldwide Music Conference, Prague, 22–23 April 2021
 * 188) Palestrina and his Time – Traditional and Digital Research Perspectives. International Symposium on the Farewell of Prof. Dr. Peter Ackermann, online, 22–23 April 2021
 * 189) 4th Tbilisi International Musicological Conference (TIMC) – National and International in Music, Tblisi, 22–4 April 2021
 * 190) Ludo2021: Conference on Video Game Music and Sound, online, 23–25 April 2021
 * 191) Marginalised Voices and Figures in French Festival Culture, 1500–1800, London, 24–25 April 2021
 * 192) Music and Intercultural Practice, online, 29–30 April 2021