8-15 September 2013
Fano,  Italy

Application deadline: 31 May 2013

The European Academy is a professional masterclass open to experienced conductors and takes places in a coastal city of the centre of Italy.  Participants will have the chance to practice with a high-level choir-in-residence, at their disposal for all the duration of the course. The Academy ends with a concert conducted by the participants.
Download brochure by clicking here.
Website.

16-17 July 2013
Sydney,  NSW  Australia

Australia and New Zealand's premier event for associations, charities and the not-for-profit sector.
Conference website.

27 December 2013 - 1 January 2014
Woodford,  Qld  Australia

Deadline for Artists & Presenters submission: 9 August 2013

Festival website

5-7 March 2014
Trinity College
Dublin,  Ireland

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 9 September 2013

The Music Composition Centre (Music Department, Trinity College Dublin) in association with the New Music Dublin Festival 2014, invites composers, musicologists and practitioners to an International Conference entitled Composition in the 21st Century that will take place in Dublin in March 2014 (conference 5-7 March & New Music Dublin Festival 7-9 March). The Conference will offer a forum to discuss aesthetic, technical, practical and economical issues affecting composers of different musical genres today.
Conference website.

16-17 April 2014
Montpellier,  France

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 15 July 2013

Exploring the place and role of love in rock may open up new perspectives from which we can analyze the genre and its audience. We invite papers from a range of disciplinary and interdisciplinary perspectives that explore themes associated with the many roles of love in rock music, from all periods and geographical areas.
Conference website.

7-12 July 2014
Krems,  Austria

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 28 August 2013

The World Congress of Music Therapy is held every three years. Music therapy professionals from around the world gather at the congress to share ideas, experiences, trends and research outcomes.
Conference website.

31 October - 1 November 2013
Ankara,  Turkey

Deadline for abstract & proposals:  17 June 2013

ATMM is an international interdisciplinary conference that focuses on the various aspects of audio, audiovisual and music technologies for music and media, and, also, on the relationship between sound, music and image in media.
Conference website.

19-20 October 2013
Jeju,  South Korea

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 10 June 2013

The  2013 3rd International Conference on Humanities, Society and Culture -ICHSC 2013, will be held during October 19-20, 2013, in Jeju Island, South Korea. ICHSC 2013, aims to bring together researchers, scientists, engineers, and scholar students to exchange and share their experiences, new ideas, and research results about all aspects of Financial Theory , and discuss the practical challenges encountered and the solutions adopted.
Conference website.

7-10 March 2014
Port Fairy,  Vic  Australia

Artist Application deadline: June 2013

Festival website.

7-8 November 2013
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia
Gold Coast,  Qld  Australia

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 31 May 2013

This year’s Conference program features a combination of ministerial addresses, plenary sessions focusing on the research agenda and the media and interactive panel sessions which aim to identify and challenge the barriers currently facing members of culturally and linguistically diverse (CALD) communities in Australia.
Conference website.

30 September - 4 October 2013
Central Qld University & Creative Regions
Bundaberg,  Qld  Australia

Registration closes: 9 August 2013

Professional development opportunity with one of the country's most admired conductors and music educators.  Download flier by clicking here.

12-14 November 2013
Paddington,  NSW  Australia

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 24 May 2013

The Art of Good Health and Wellbeing, 5th Annual International Arts and Health Conference, will present best practice and innovative arts and health programs, effective health promotion and prevention campaigns, methods of project evaluation and scientific research.
Details on website.

1-8 September 2013
Italian Federation of Regional Choral Associations
near Venice,  Italy

Next to the seaside and close to the beautiful Venice and the evocative Trieste, this summer singing week will host 6 atelier open to choirs, conductors, individual choir members and music lovers!  Every evening there will be concerts, introduced by open singing, and all participants are invited to join this magical atmosphere and enjoy the music.
Details on website.

21 June 2013
Brisbane,  Qld  Australia

Launched in 1982 by the French Ministry for culture, the Fête de la Musique is held in more than hundred countries in Europe and over the world. It takes place every 21st June, the day of the summer solstice in the northern hemisphere. Thanks to the impulse and the dynamism of the French cultural network abroad (the departments of Cultural Affairs at the French Embassies, french cultural Centers and Institutes and the Alliances Françaises) the Fête has an important international growth.
Festival Website

7-10 June 2013
Perisher,  NSW  Australia

The Perisher Snowy Mountains of Music - the only music festival in the snow! Over 40 blistering bands over 4 days on the opening weekend of the snow at Perisher Valley.
Details on website.

11-13 September 2013
Brisbane,  Qld  Australia

Deadline for Showcase Performance Application: 29 April 2013

Held annually in Brisbane, BIGSOUND is recognised as Australia's leading international music industry gathering. Over three days each September, BIGSOUND draws a growing contingent of musicians, managers, buyers, industry experts and music lovers to meet, learn, and discover new music in Brisbane's renowned entertainment precinct, Fortitude Valley.
Details on website.

29-30 May 2013
Australia Council for the Arts
Canberra,  ACT  Australia

The Australia Council's Marketing Summit brings together arts and cultural marketers for two days of creative exchange and insights on contemporary arts marketing.
Details on website.

10-23 September 2013
Hamburg,  Germany

Application closes: 1 July 2013

The seventh International Mendelssohn Summer School Festival will be taking place this year from September 10th to the 23rd. Renowned artists will give master classes for violin, viola, violoncello and ensembles at the Hochschule für Musik und Theater Hamburg, a historic mansion beautifully located on the banks of the Alster lake. Nightly concerts given by the participants and instructors will compliment the many master classes.
Details on website
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18-21 November 2013
Screen Producers Association of Australia
Melbourne,  Vic  Australia

For details go to website.

29 May - 6 June 2013
Brisbane,  Qld  Australia

Featuring local and international artists.
Details on website.

27-29 September 2013
Kiama,  NSW  Australia

Artist Application close: 30 April 2013

A new festival featuring the sounds of folk, world, roots, Celtic, bluegrass and gypsy music.  20 acts over 3 days in 5 venues in the picturesque seaside town of Kiama, famous for its blowhole.
Festival Website

29 November - 1 December 2013
Centro Studi Opera Omnia Luigi Boccherini, Lucca
Italy

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 30 April 2013

The conference aims to study the genre of the string quartet from its origins to its culmination in the middle of the nineteenth century. The aim is to examine the connection between structural and stylistic facets of the genre and the social and cultural contexts that facilitated its cultivation.
Website

6-8 December 2013
University of Melbourne
Melbourne,  Vic  Australia

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 30 September 2012

Scheduled to coincide with the performances of Wagner’s Der Ring des Nibelungen in Melbourne, 18 November–13 December 2013, the symposium “Wagner and Us” will explore and critique Richard Wagner’s continuing cultural, political, and historical importance to contemporary society. The symposium, convened by Professor Kerry Murphy, is jointly hosted by The University of Melbourne, Monash University, and The Richard Wagner Society in Melbourne.
Website

3 & 10 November, 2013
London,  UK

Welcome to the world’s most-diverse music festival. LIAF is the ultimate festival experience that ignites in two exciting East London venues, Kenneth More Theatre in Ilford & Rich Mix in Bethnal Green. Carnatic, South Indian classical music and World music will take centre stage.
Details on website.

31 May - 9 June 2013
Melbourne,  Vic  Australia

First time jazz-goers and aficionados alike will experience a program of Modern Masters including legendary vocalist Cassandra Wilson (USA) in her first Australian appearance in almost a decade; multi-Grammy-Award winner Chucho Valdés and his Afro-Cuban Messengers (CUBA); an exclusive premiere from highly sought-after contemporary big band composers Maria Schneider (USA) and Darcy James Argue (CAN); quintessential New Orleans masters Rebirth Brass Band (USA); Blood Sweat & Tears' Mike Stern (USA) using his jazz roots to explore rock, swing, funk, blues and world music; and the world premiere of Australia’s own Joe Camilleri, Vince Jones and Vika Bull performing Here Comes the Night: Songs from the Van Morrison Songbook.
Full program and details on website.

14-17 November 2013
Melbourne,  Vic  Australia

Artist submission for showcase closes: 30 April 2013

Four days of the finest root music from around the world.  Showcase concerts, conference, film.
Website.

23-27 October 2013
The International Academic Forum
Osaka,  Japan

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 1 July 2013

The Asian Conference on Education is an interdisciplinary international conference that invites academics and independent scholars and researchers from around the world to meet and exchange the latest ideas and views in a forum encouraging respectful dialogue, and offering the opportunity for renewing old acquaintances, making new contacts, and networking across higher education.
Conference website.

16-18 October 2013
Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre; Lithuanian Composers Union
Vilnius, Lithuania

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 14 June 2013

The purpose of the conference is to contribute towards the development of musicological thought, which could serve to compositional practice and teaching process.
Conference website.

June 2015
International Child Art Foundation
Washington DC, USA

More details will be coming.
Website

10-13 October 2013
Shanghai,  China

Organised by Messe Frankfurt (HK) Ltd, the China Music Instrument Association (CMIA) and INTEX Shanghai, the show continues to grow in scale, with eight exhibition halls, an increase of one hall to 92,000 sqm, including a 50 percent increase in the piano zone for the 2013 show.
Website

9 November 2013
University of Hull
UK

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 16 August 2013

This one-day SEMPRE conference hosted by the University of Hull will include invited presentations, a specialist workshop and selected submissions from researchers on the theme of music and empathy. In recent years there has been a growing interest in empathy in the fields of a variety of contexts, including education and development, emotion, expressiveness, and performance. This conference seeks to draw together current research from a range of areas, and to encourage and stimulate discussion on research in music and empathy.
Details on website.

23-25 July 2013
Sydney,  NSW  Australia

A conference and trade show for pro audio, audio visual, integration, lighting and staging.
Details on website.

18-20 October 2013
International Musicological Society East Asian Regional Association
Taipei,  Taiwan

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 28 February 2013

This international conference aims to examine a diversity of issues regarding the historical trajectories and current articulations of music in the global age, with special emphasis on listening to the voices of researchers who work in East Asia.
Conference website.

27 December 2013 - 1 January 2014
Woodford,  Qld  Australia

Deadline for artist applications: 13 May 2013

Australia's largest folk music festival.  For details go to website.

7-8 November 2013
Federation of Ethnic Communities’ Councils of Australia
Gold Coast, Qld Australia

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 31 May 2013

The conference is being run in partnership with the Ethnic Communities Council of Queensland (ECCQ) and the Multicultural Communities Council Gold Coast (MCCGC). This conference is the pre-eminent Australian multicultural conference and attracts hundreds of delegates from the community, government and private sectors. Through this year’s conference we are seeking to identify the barriers currently facing members of culturally and linguistically diverse communities in Australia, and to work towards developing a solid national agenda to address these barriers.

26-28 May 2013
Australian Performing Arts Centres Association
Canberra,  ACT  Australia

Conference website.

13-16 January 2014
Santiago,  Chile

Call for speakers to be opened early 2013
Creative Times: new models for cultural development
The Summit will address how globalisation, shifts in social and economic development and new forms of communication are generating an array of challenges and opportunities within the cultural field, with an impact transcending the artistic realm.
Conference website.

17-21 December 2013
Graz,  Austria

"Performing Arts Management Today" is the professional conference open to arts managers, arts administrators, arts management educators and consultants, arts entrepreneurs, fundraisers, producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts administration and training.
Conference website.

18-20 September 2013
Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities
Sydney  NSW  Australia

Macquarie University will host the 2013 DASSH Conference and AGM on-campus with the theme ‘Universities and Communities.’ Topics to be discussed include how university missions reflect community duties, access programs, languages and community, schools and university communities. More information will follow early in 2013.
Website.

12-16 August 2013
Perth,  WA  Australia

Deadline for abstracts & proposals: 13 February 2013

Tura New Music in association with The International Computer Music Association, Edith Cowan University and The Australasian Computer Music Association announces  The 2013 International Computer Music Conference
Conference website.

23-26 October 2013
Singapore

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 31 December 2012

This is a hands-on, participatory, practical event led by an international team of presenters. The conference is for everyone with a passion for music education; teachers, performers, students or music industry. We are covering all genres of music.
Details on website.

9-11 September 2013
West Cape, South Africa

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 18 January 2013

To find ways to articulate and listen to landscape that challenge established patterns of cognition and intervention, and which probe the archival and everyday silences and ruptures exacerbated by social, political and and intellectual intervention.
Details on website.

6-9 August, 2013
Gregorian Institute of Canada
British Columbia,  Canada

Deadline for Abstracts and Proposals: 15 January 2013

Workshops and Papers on the theme Chant and Culture are invited in English or French. William Mahrt of Stanford University will give the keynote address. The Vancouver Early Music Festival will be running a concurrent program.
Details on website.

8-25 August 2013
Darwin,  NT  Australia

The Darwin Festival is a vibrant arts and cultural event held every year in Darwin’s dry season—a unique festival celebrating Darwin and its multicultural flavour and Asian connections
Festival website.

26 July - 3 August 2013
Townsville,  Qld  Australia

The Australian Festival of Chamber Music is an international chamber music festival and Winterschool held over twelve days each July in Townsville, North Queensland. Each year the Festival attracts between 20 and 30 soloists and chamber musicians from around the world to give concerts and teach Australia’s best emerging artists.
Festival website.

22-25 August 2013
Gympie,  Qld  Australia

Artist Application opening soon.

While the general theme is country, the genre is celebrated in all its forms. Each venue hosts an array of entertainment including folk, alt-country, bush poetry, country dance, Australian traditional, blues, Americana and bluegrass. There is also a smattering of classic Aussie rock to ensure all tastes are catered for.
Festival website.

5-14 July 2013
Hobart,  TAS,  Australia

Join choirs and singers from across Australia and gather in Hobart to work with inspiring national and international guest artists and conductors in a series of workshops and concerts over 5 days
Festival website.

Sydney Conservatorium of Music, University of Sydney
Sydney, NSW Australia

Classes starting 4 Feb include:
• Vocal fundamentals
• Jazz piano
• Music fundamentals
• Impro basics
• Composition
• Sound recording basics
• Live sound
• Jazz Harmony

9-11 September 2013
Western Cape, South Africa

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 18 January 2013

To find ways to articulate and listen to landscape that challenge established patterns of cognition and intervention, and which probe the archival and everyday silences and ruptures exacerbated by social, political and and intellectual intervention.
Details on website.

17-21 December 2013
IUGTE
Leitring be Leibnitz, Austria

"Performing Arts Management Today" is the professional conference open to arts managers, arts administrators, arts management educators and consultants, arts entrepreneurs, fundraisers,
producers, arts agents and talent managers working in various artistic disciplines from all over the world
interested in the research of topical questions and processes in contemporary performing arts administration and training.
Details on website.

21-24 November 2013
International Music Council, Music Council of Australia & Qld Conservatorium Research Ctr
Brisbane,  Qld  Australia

Over 1,000 music professionals and other enthusiasts from all over the world descend upon the heart of the cultural precinct on Brisbane’s South Bank to discuss, plan, be part of, and experience the future of music on this planet: musicians, producers, managers, administrators, festival directors, journalists, scholars, educators, facilitators, activists, policy makers and other lovers of the art in its myriad forms and contexts.
Details will be appearing on website.

7-14 August 2014
Seoul,  South Korea

Performers application deadline: 1 December 2012

Would your choir like to perform at the world’s most prestigious choral event and participate in the excitement and thrill amongst the world’s best? The International Federation for Choral Music and UNWTO ST-EP Foundation (ST-EP Foundation) together with its local partner, the Korean Federation for Choral Music (KFCM) will convene the 10th World Symposium on Choral Music in Seoul, Rep. Korea. (WSCM10) and are now accepting applications to perform in the main Symposium concerts.
Download application form by clicking here.

31 May - 2 June 2013
New York, USA

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 17 December 2012

To be held at New York University, Steinhardt.
The annual conference, Music and the Moving Image, encourages submissions from scholars and practitioners that explore the relationship between music, sound, and the entire universe of moving images (film, TV, video games, mobile media, and interactive performances) through paper presentations.

7-8 June 2013
Strasbourg,  France

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 31 December 2012

This international conference aims to explore the new political meanings and practices of music and to provide an impetus for their study.
Conference website.

17-20 July 2013
Sydney,  NSW  Australia

Deadline for papers and abstract: 17 December 2012
Deadline for workshop proposal: 12 January 2013

For 2013 the conference theme will be `Intersections and Interactions’, due to the inter-disciplinarity that is inherent in the study of creativity and cognition. June 2013 will be an exciting time for Sydney, as the International Symposium on Electronic Art (ISEA 2013) will run from the 7th to 16th, as well as the Vivid Festival of Arts from the 24th of May until the 10th of June.
Conference website.

10-13 July 2013
Australasian Association of Literature
Sydney,  NSW  Australia

Deadline for Abstracts and Papers: 1 March 2013

What is a modern soundscape? This conference aims to address this question by drawing together researchers engaged with the history and theory of sound and noise from the fields of literature, film, and media studies, as well as architecture, music and the visual arts to consider the multiple soundscapes that have shaped and continue to shape the history of modernity.
Conference website.

4-8 July 2013
Maryborough,  Qld  Australia

Maryborough Music Conference 2013 will be open to Instrumental Music Teachers, Primary and Secondary Classroom Music Teachers, General Primary and Secondary Teachers, University Students, Community Choral and Band Directors and their members and anyone interested in Music Education.
Conference website.

30 June - 7 July 2013
Barbershop Harmony Society
Toronto,  Canada

Details on website.

26-28 June 2013
Sabah,  Malaysia

Deadline for abstracts: 31 December

The 3rd International Conference on Performing Arts As Creative Industries In Asia or PACIA will be held in the School of Arts, Universiti Malaysia Sabah from 26th - 28th of June 2013 to promote the fields of performing arts found in theatre, music, oral literature and dance in relations to visual arts, script-writing, education, journalism, literature, education, fashion, architecture, fine arts, crafts, film, music, advertising, publishing, and animation.
Details on website.

28-31 August 2013
University of Music and Performing Arts
Vienna,  Austria

Deadline for Abstracts and Proposals: 30 November 2012

The International Symposium on Performance Science (ISPS) is a biennial meeting of performers and scientists to discuss performance and the skills which underpin it.
Conference Website.