Research conferences

A list of all upcoming (and previous) music-related research conferences.

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2024

14th June: Social Inclusion, Community, and Belonging at International Music Festivals

2023

24th - 25th February: Folk Singing Symposium 

21st - 22nd April: Silver anniversary of the Distance Learning MA in Psychology of Music

18th-20th October: SysMus23 - The 16th International Conference of Students of Systematic Musicology

2022

14th-17th June: International conference on analytical approaches to world music

2021

12-15 May: Stagestruck 3: Reading Musicals: Sources, Editions, Performance 

28th-31st July: ESCOM2021: 11th Triennial Conference: Connectivity and diversity in music cognition

12th-15th May: Rethinking the Golden Age Musical: Great American Songbook Foundation

View the panel event featuring five major Broadway actresses talking about 'Gender and the Golden Age'. 
 

2020

20th MarchMapping music for wellbeing Sheffield - POSTPONED 

6th June: The Folk Voice 

15-17 July: Cross-European Summer School on Musical Ability

2019

10-12 January: Royal Musical Association/British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Research Students' Conference

9-10 May: On the Record: Critical Approaches to the Musical Theatre Cast Album

13-15 June: Music and Visual Culture in Renaissance Italy

19 June: Families and music: An interdisciplinary perspective on fostering family bonding

3-5 July: Sheffield Performer and Audience Research Centre (SPARC) conference

12th October: Sound Teaching Workshops on Expression, communication and creativity in music performance

2018

27-29 April: Sound Agendas Composers Conference

9-11 May: Stagestruck 4: Rethinking Broadway's Golden Age (online)

18 June: Music Teacher Conference - Teaching World Music

20-27 September: Colourama: A synaesthesia experience

27 October: Sound Teaching - A one-day interactive conference for instrumental teachers and musicians

2017

20-23 April: British Forum for Ethnomusicology Annual Conference

2016

8 April: Choral practice, performance and pedagogy: real-world applications of choral research

10-12 May: Stagestruck 2: Putting It Together: Investigating Sources for Musical Theatre Research 

5-8 July: Medieval and Renaissance Music Conference

2015

29 April: Understanding Audiences for the Contemporary Arts

23-25 March: International Conference on the Multimodal Experience of Music

2014

14-18 May: Stagestruck 1: Restaging the Song: Adapting Broadway for the Silver Screen

2013

4-6 October: Sources of Identity: Makers, Owners and Users of Music Sources Before 1600

6 December: Crosscurrents in Music and Theology

2010

21-24 July: (CIM10) Conference on Interdisciplinary Musicology

22 July: CIM-SEMPRE Study Day and Workshop

2008

26-27 March: The Spanish Humour

2007

19 October: Musical Behaviour and Experience

20 October: Musical Participation

27 October: RMA Training Day

3 November: Gender and Musical Performance

2006

17-19 July: International Conference on Music and Consciousness

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