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.

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.

7-8 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.

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.

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.

18-21 November 2013
Screen Producers Association of Australia
Melbourne,  Vic  Australia

For details go to 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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

20-21 March 2013
London,  UK

Rhinegold Publishing, market-leading publishers for the UK music education sector, are proud to bring you the UK's most comprehensive music education event. Taking place at the Barbican Centre, London, this two-day event offers music education professionals a highly rewarding experience
website

18-24 June 2013
College Music Society
Buernos Aires, Argentine

Abstracts and Proposals Deadline: 4 September 2012
Call for Scores Deadline: 4 September 2012

Biennial international conferences of The College Music Society provide its membership with international educational and cultural enrichment opportunities. CMS International Conferences routinely attract between 80–100 faculty, administrators, graduate students, independent scholars, performers, and composers who share a common interest and dedication to the improvement of music and its relationship to the other academic disciplines of higher education.
website

10-12 November 2012
International Network for Alternative Academia
Quebec,  Canada

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 8 June 2012

This trans-disciplinary project seeks to understand the value and meaning music has in our lives, as well as the multiple ways music structures and informs our relationships, sense of place and self across historical periods and within cultural, political and social contexts. Exploring how music is created, received, consumed and appropriated, this symposium offers an opportunity to consider the ways in which music is interweaved with social and cultural processes of the construction of self, membership and community, and conversely with the generation of otherness, exclusion and isolation.
website

10-14 July 2013
Brisbane  Qld  Australia

Deadline for proposal/abstract: 30 June 2012

The ICVT 2013 Congress gathers voice teachers in all styles from all over the world for a quadrennial meeting, held in Australia for the first time. The program includes renowned international teachers and singers delivering performances, lectures, hands-on workshops, masterclasses, panel sessions, research presentations and social events, with pre- and post-event travel suggestions for delegates to enjoy. Congress themes will include all aspects of learning and teaching singing, fine singing performance and access to recent research.
Website.

7-16 June, 2013
presented by Australian Network for Art and Technology (ANAT)
Sydney  NSW  Australia

Call for proposal - performances deadline: 2 Feb - 8 June 2012 (see website for details)

Call for Papers: to be opened later in 2012 (bookmark website for dates)

ISEA2013 is a mind-changing feast of art and ideas that will introduce new ways of seeing and living the city. This international event will open a whole new world of interactive digital art to Australia. ISEA2013 will use Sydney as the playground where the public is immersed in ground-breaking creative works in and outside of the gallery. ISEA is one of the most significant international events in the field of electronic art and digital media, attracting global leaders in the field. 
Details on website.

13-16 January 2014
International Federation of Arts Councils and Culture Agencies
Santiago,  Chile

WEBSITE

Future of Music Coalition
3-4 October 2011
Washington DC, USA

The 2011 Future of Music Policy Summit will examine the issues that matter most to today musicians, songwriters and composers — from the hyper-local to the truly global.

Full details on WEBSITE