9-10 June 2012
Conservatorium Open Academy
Sydney  NSW  Australia

The Violin Teachers Festival will take place in June 2012 for the first time in a number of years. Presentations from the acclaimed faculty of Strings at the Sydney Conservatorium of Music will cover technical, musical and philosophical issues pertinent to violin teachers in studios and school situations. Participants will also have the opporunity to network with colleagues and see performance masterclasses featuring students inthe Conservatorium Open Academy’s Rising Stars program.  Full details on 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.

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12-14 September 2012
Brisbane  Qld  Australia

With last year’s event smashing home a reputation as the Southern Hemisphere’s global music gathering, BIGSOUND has launched with its first announcement of speakers and live performers converging on Brisbane’s Fortitude Valley Live Music Precinct

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30 May - 2 June 2012
Munich,  Germany

Classical:NEXT is the new professionals forum for classical music. The first edition of this annual event will take place in Munich, Germany, from 30 May until 2 June 2012. Already now more than 300 international professionals from all sectors of the classical music scene have confirmed their attendance - labels, arts presenters, media, promoters, artist agents, distributors, export offices,  and of course artists from all over the world.

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27-28 December 2012
The Macrotheme Review
Paris,  France

Abstract and Proposal Deadline: 1 November 2012

The Macrotheme Review invites authors to submit abstracts and proposals on all relevant topics related to law (international law, investment law, corporate law, intellectual property, criminal law, civil law...) sports (professional and amateur sport issues...), and entertainment (film, music, TV, internet, social networks, fashion, dance, regional and ethnic)   Full details on website.

14-17 November 2012
The National Guild for Community Arts Education
Texas,  USA

Abstracts and Proposals deadline: 22 May 2012

Gain inspiration and connect with hundreds of community arts education leaders throughout the United States. The Conference for Community Arts Education provides essential professional development and networking opportunities for staff, faculty, trustees, and teaching artists. As a delegate, you'll have the opportunity to develop new skills, share best practices with hundreds of peers, explore model programs, and bring home practical ideas for advancing your programs and organization.  Full details on 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.
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16-17 November 2012
Jagiellonian University, Centre for Comparative Studies of Civilizations
Krakow, Poland

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 30 May 2012

The conference „Music and Genocide” is an attempt to stimulate collective thinking about the sonic dimension of genocide. Can we talk about an audiosphere of the inexplicable? What is the music of genocide?
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14-17 November 2012
National Guild for Community Arts Education
Dallas, Texas,  USA

Deadline for abstracts and proposals: 22 May 2012

You are invited to the 75th annual Conference for Community Arts Education in Dallas, TX.

24-25 May 2012
Melbourne  Vic  Australia

Each year, the Marketing Summit brings together Australia’s arts and cultural marketers for two days of creative exchange and insights on contemporary arts marketing.

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10-12 December 2012
Levinsky College of Education
Tel Aviv,  Israel

Deadline for Abstracts and Proposals: 1 May 2012

The conference will focus on research, innovation and discourse in education, and is open to members of the academia and to teacher education professionals from Israel and across the globe. The conference will include three major areas of interest: (1) discourse, research and innovation in education and teacher education; (2) music education; and (3) developmental-historical perspectives on education and teacher education.  For details go to 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.
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26-28 October 2012
University of Edinburgh
Edinburgh,  Scotland

Deadline for abstract/proposal: 1 June 2012

The aim of the conference is to promote the work of Professor Raymond Monelle in semiotics of music through the presentation and discussion of musical 'topics' as they emerge in the West European repertoire and in popular music.
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25-27 October 2012
Spanish Society for the Study of Popular Culture (SELICUP)
Toledo,  Spain

Deadline for abstract/proposal: 30 June 2012

The conference will approach the study of popular culture from multidisciplinary perspectives.
Website.

26-28 September 2012
Griffith University
Griffith  NSW  Australia

Call for Proposals Deadline: 1 June 2012

‘Creative communities’ is a well-worn phrase conventionally equated with notions of well-being, civic participation and social inclusion. Creativity in this sense is regarded as social glue that bonds individuals together through collaboration in various forms of creative projects – be it visual art, drama, dance, theatre, music, writing or a combination of these. that bring communities together in positive and fulfilling ways. Similarly, community connotes a wholehearted feeling, the strength of relationships in networks or inclusiveness through a sense of shared characteristics and values. For full details go to website.

1 June - 31 July 2012
Melbourne & Dandenong, Vic  Australia

Melbourne’s rich cultural heritage comes alive with this colourful annual music and arts festival presenting amazing new refugee and emerging artists who have recently settled in Australia.

17-19 October 2012
Lithuanian Composers’ Union; Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Vilnius, Lithuania

Abstract & Proposal Deadline: 10 June 2012

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.

17-20 October 2012
Choir in Focus and Lund Choral Festival
Lund,  Sweden

Abstracts and Proposals Deadline: 30 March 2012

In order to make visible and available the contemporary dynamic development of choral research, this conference aims at encouraging communication between theory and practice.
Conference & Festival Website

9-10 August 2012
Srinakharinwirot University
Bangkok,  Thailand

Deadline for Abstracts & Proposals: 20 April 2012

The conference’s objective is to bring together the academics and experts from different parts of the world to share knowledge, research and academic works in various aspects, and consequently create an academic network of those who contribute to the body of knowledge in the field of Asian arts and culture.
Conference Website.

1-3 November 2012
University of Amsterdam, Royal Netherlands Institute in Rome
Rome  Italy

Call for abstracts/proposals deadline: 1 June 2012

This is the third of a biennially organized conference that brings together scholars and historians of humanities disciplines to draw the outlines for a comparative history of the humanities. Although histories of single humanities disciplines already exist for a long time, the history of the humanities as a whole has only very recently been investigated, and the first monographs have just appeared.  Details on website.

17-19 October 2012
Lithuanian Composers’ Union; Lithuanian Academy of Music and Theatre
Vilnius, Lithuania

Call for Papers Deadline: 10 June 2012

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

22-23 September 2012
Auckland, New Zealand

Call for Paper Deadline: 31 March 2012

The theme of conference is "Music and the Brain: Developing Pathways" with international music therapist, Dr. Wendy Magee giving the Keynote address.  Dr. Magee is Associate Professor within the Department of Music Education and Therapy, Temple University, Philadelphia, USA.  The Conference will be held at the Quality Hotel Barrycourt, Parnell, Auckland. For details go to website.

26-28 May 2012
Sydney  NSW  Australia

Song Summit is one of Australia's premier music industry events, dedicated to supporting composers, songwriters and the wider music business. Conference, workshops, live performances and networking.  Details on website.

30-31 October 2012
Chatswood  NSW  Australia

Call for Proposals Deadline: 16 April 2012

The third Arts Activated Conference presents an interactive exploration of access to the Arts as a practical outcome of Australian cultural life. Artists and advocates, practitioners and producers, arts administrators and policy-makers will connect, debate and influence the vision of full social inclusion in all areas of the Arts nationwide.  Details on website.

8-12 October 2012
International Society for Music Information Retrieval
Porto  Portugal

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 13 April 2012

The annual Conference of the International Society for Music Information Retrieval (ISMIR) is the world's leading research forum on processing, searching, organizing and accessing music-related data. The revolution in music distribution and storage brought about by digital technology has fueled tremendous research activities and interests in academia as well as in industry. 
Conference website.

19-21 July 2012
Pretoria,  South Africa

Deadline for abstracts/proposals: 15 March 2012

As mandated by the 2011 AGM, we invite submissions on any research related to music; presentations will be chosen solely on the basis of their quality, not on their subject matter or approach. We hope that opening the conference in this way will stimulate members to submit a wide variety of proposals, including some that may cross traditional boundaries or present new approaches, and that the conference will encourage discussions across previously segregated sub-disciplines.  Full details on 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.

30-31 October 2012
Accessible Arts
Chatswood  NSW  Australia

The third Arts Activated National Conference presents an interactive exploration of access to the Arts as a practical outcome of Australian cultural life. Artists and advocates, practitioners and producers, arts administrators and policy-makers will connect, debate and influence the vision of full social inclusion in all areas of the Arts nationwide.

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14-17 September 2012
Osaka  Japan

Call for Papers, Proposals: 12 July 2012

Kansai Music Conference provides a forum for independent musicians around the world to network with music industry professionals and showcase their music to the Japanese market.
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18-21 October 2012
Regional Arts Australia
Goolwa  SA  Australia

Call for Presenters, Papers Deadline: 28 February 2012

Full details on WEBSITE

13-15 July 2012
Inter-Asia Popular Music Studies Group
National Taiwan Normal University, Taipei, Taiwan

Deadline for Call for Papers: 31 January 2012

The studies on Asian popular music are still in its embryonic stage. There is neither a university program in Asia devoted to popular music studies nor a journal dedicated to the exploration of Asian popular music.
Full details on WEBSITE

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

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15-20 July 2012
International Society of Music Education
Thessaloniki,  Greece

Call for Papers Deadline: 1 October 2011

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2-5 October 2012
Adelaide,  SA  Australia

Call for Papers, Workshops Deadline: 8 October 2011

Full information on WEBSITE

19-21 November 2012
North Cyprus

Call for papers deadline: 15 March 2012

Performing Island Identities will explore music, dance, storytelling, folk theatre, and other performance traditions past and present in island communities worldwide. We will bring together folklorists, historians,  anthropologists, ethnomusicologists, and others to consider how islandness influences the development of traditions, especially how performance traditions form and maintain identity. The conference will include  academic presentations and cultural events. Conference attendance is open to all interested individuals.
WEBSITE

5-8 July 2012
Edmund Rice Per­form­ing Arts Centre,
Brisbane  Qld  Australia

For full details go to WEBSITE

23-26 May 2012
Columbus State University
Georgia,  USA

Full details on WEBSITE

13-17 June 2012
University of Jyväskylä
Jyväskylä, Finland

For full details go to 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

6-9 July 2012
The Centre for Tourism Cultural Change
Liverpool,  UK

Call for papers deadline: 21 November 2011

The CTCC’s 6th international research conference, and in the City of Liverpool famed for its popular music, we seek to explore the relationships between tourism, tourists and all forms/genres and sub-genres of music.

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International Music Council
15-20 July 2012
Thessaloniki, Greece

Conference theme: "Music Paedeia: From ancient greek philosophers towards global music  communities"
Deadline for Presenters: 1 October 2011
Deadline for Performers: 30 August 2011
Website

Organisation: World Harp Congress, Inc.

24 to 30 July 2011 This conference is for harpists of all types from beginners to professionals, performers, teachers, harp-builders, arrangers and composers. And it is for harp enthusiasts of all styles including classical, jazz, folk, early music, contemporary and world.