AMS Board Meeting
2026-01-16 - 2026-01-17 | New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10003, United States

AMS Study Group Leaders Meeting
2026-01-23 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
The Study Group Leaders Meeting is the annual meeting of AMS study group leaders with the AMS Executive Director and members of the Board of Directors. The purpose of the meeting is to share news and information, and to maintain open lines of communications between AMS study groups and the Board of Directors. The Zoom link to access the meeting will be shared with study group leaders via email.

AMS Greater New York Chapter Meeting
2026-02-06 | Online
The Winter Meeting of the Greater New York Chapter will take place ONLINE on Saturday, February 6, 2026.
The chapter is seeking proposals for presentations at this time. Please send 250 word proposals by December 20th. We invite proposals in all areas of musical scholarship.
Send your proposals to both jonathan.waxman “at” gmail.com and DrJSDailey “at” aol.com. Do not send attachments—everything must be pasted in the e mail. Include a brief (3 sentence max) bio and include your current affiliation. Put “AMSGNY Winter 2026” in the subject line.

AMS Chapter Leaders Meeting
2026-02-06 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
The Chapter Leaders Meeting is the annual meeting of AMS committee chairs with the AMS Executive Director and members of the Board of Directors. The purpose of the meeting is to share news and information, and to maintain open lines of communications between AMS committees and the Board of Directors. The Zoom link to access the meeting will be shared with chapter leaders via email.

AMS Committee Leaders Meeting
2026-02-13 14:00 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
The Committee Leaders Meeting is the annual meeting of AMS committee chairs with the AMS Executive Director and members of the Board of Directors. The purpose of the meeting is to share news and information, and to maintain open lines of communications between AMS committees and the Board of Directors. The Zoom link to access the meeting will be shared with committee chairs via email.

AMS New England Chapter Meeting
2026-02-21 | Online
The Winter 2026 meeting of the New England Chapter will take place on Saturday, February 21, hosted online by Dartmouth College. The Program Committee invites proposals of up to 300 words for 20-minute papers or for themed sessions or panels. All abstracts are subject to anonymous review, and submissions from faculty, independent scholars, and students are encouraged and welcome.
Abstracts should be submitted by January 23 to the Program Committee through this Google form or at the following email: ams.newengland [at] gmail [dot] com. Submitters will be informed of the committee’s decision by the end of January, with the hope of announcing the conference program by February 6.

AMS Southern Chapter and SEM Southeast/Caribbean Chapter Meeting
2026-02-27 - 2026-02-28 | Florida State University, 222 S Copeland St, Tallahassee, FL, 32306, United States
Florida State University will jointly host the annual meetings of the American Musicological Society Southern Chapter and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southeast/Caribbean Chapter in Tallahassee, Florida on 27–28 2026.

AMS Southeast Chapter Meeting
2026-02-28 | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Chapel Hill, NC, United States
The Southeast Chapter of the American Musicological Society will hold its Spring 2026 meeting hosted by the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill on Saturday, 28 February 2026. The program committee hereby invites proposals for individual presentations in the following formats:
Papers: Papers will be limited to 20 minutes in length in order to allow 10 minutes for discussion. Proposals should include a formal title, an abstract of no more than 250 words, as well as the author’s name, email address, and institutional affiliation or place of residence. Indicate any audio-visual equipment or instruments (such as piano).
Lecture-Recitals: Lecture-recitals connecting musicological research with live performance will be limited to 20 minutes in length, including both spoken and performed components. These proposals should follow the same guidelines as those for papers. The abstract should include a description explaining the significance of the work(s) or manner of performance, as well as a summary of the lecture component, including information pertaining to the underlying research, its methodology, and conclusions. Proposals must be accompanied by an .mp3 recording of the performer(s) in order to demonstrate proficiency. Please be sure that the .mp3 file does not have any identifying information in the file name or metadata. While a recorded performance of the proposed piece(s) is strongly preferred, a recorded performance comparable in style and difficulty level will also be accepted. Those proposing lecture-recitals are responsible for providing all personnel needed for the performance.
Posters: Posters will be displayed throughout the meeting and will receive a designated session during which each presenter will have the opportunity to deliver a 5-minute summary of methodology and research findings prior to attendees’ circulation and questions. These proposals should follow the same guidelines as those for individual papers. Student posters are eligible for a Student Presentation Award in a separate poster designation.
Please submit all proposals via this link by Friday, 16 January 2026.
Student members are encouraged to work with a faculty mentor to ensure a presentation of the highest quality. All student members of the AMS Southeast Chapter whose papers are accepted to the meeting are encouraged to apply for a Student Presentation Award. To be considered for this award, student presenters must submit a complete draft of their paper to the chapter president via e-mail no later than twenty-four hours prior to the conference or provide three paper copies to the president the morning of the conference.

AMS Allegheny and Capital Chapter Meeting
2026-02-28 - 2026-03-01 | Gettysburg College, 300 N Washington St, Gettysburg, PA, 17325, United States
The Allegheny and Capital Chapters of the AMS are excited to announce a joint conference to be held 28 Feburary–1 March 2026 at Gettysburg College. The conference will feature guest speaker Dr. Rodrigo Sigal (composer and sound studies specialist) and a colloquy on musicology pedagogy today. The program committee invites proposals for individual papers, lecture-recitals, seminar panels, or other presentation formats on any subject of musicological interest. Preceding the conference, participants will have the opportunity to attend a Friday night concert by the Gettysburg College Symphony Orchestra under the direction of Dr. César Leal, featuring music by Sigal.
The chapters invite faculty to participate in a Micro-Colloquium titled Musicology and Practice, a one-hour session focused on sharing innovative, practical approaches to teaching undergraduate music history. The chapters welcome brief, four-minute presentations on topics such as curricular innovations, performance-informed teaching, communicating musicology to younger generations, and navigating the “new normal” in today’s higher education crisis. Proposals should be around 100 words. No full papers are required, just fresh ideas and lively discussion.
The chapters encourage proposal submissions for a number of scholarly presentation formats:

Individual papers: a 20 minute presentation with 10 minutes of discussion.
“Lightning” sessions papers: individual 8-10 minute talks with additional discussion or media. The entire session will fill a one-hour slot.
Video presentation: a presentation of variable length with 10-minutes of discussion. Abstracts should include information on the goals, format, and length of the presentation. Additional guidelines will be distributed with acceptance.
Seminar panels: 3-4 papers that will be distributed ahead of the conference and comprise an extended discussion of the topic followed by questions.
Additional formats (workshops, roundtables, lecture-recitals) should fill an hour time slot. Please identify session format, musicological significance, and participant roles in your abstract.

Please submit an abstract of up to 250 words along with the proposed title and presentation format via this form by 5 January 2026.
Student members of the Allegheny Chapter are eligible for the annual Deane L. Root Student Paper Award, sponsored by the Center for American Music in the University of Pittsburgh Library System.
Student members of the Capital Chapter are eligible for the annual Lowens Student Paper Award.

AMS South-Central Chapter Meeting
2026-03-20 - 2026-03-21 | Georgia State University, Atlanta, GA, 30302, United States
The AMS South-Central Chapter is pleased to announce its Spring 2026 meeting (20–21 March 2026) at Georgia State University in Atlanta, GA with a keynote address delivered by Marian Wilson Kimber. The AMS South-Central Chapter invites submissions for papers, panel discussions, and lecture-recitals from all areas of music research.
Proposals should be sent to the Program Committee Chair, Jason Rosenholtz-Witt (jkro253 [at] uky.edu) by 16 January 2025. Receipt of your submission will be acknowledged via an email reply.
For a proposal submitted by a student, chapter policy requires that an advisor or other faculty member send a separate email message to the Program Committee Chair to verify student status. Students from the AMS South-Central Chapter whose abstracts are selected by the program committee will be eligible to compete in the Rey M. Longyear Student Paper Competition.
Presentations will be limited to twenty minutes with an additional ten minutes allotted for questions and discussion. Proposals should include an abstract of no more than 350 words and clearly indicate the scope of research, the research methods employed, and the presenter’s conclusions. Proposals should consist of a Word doc or PDF file that includes no personally identifying information but only the presentation title, abstract, and format (paper, panel, lecture recital, etc.).
Please attach the proposal to an email that gives the presenter’s full contact information, presentation title, any A/V requirements, and a short bio (100 words or less). Panel proposals should include an abstract describing the scope of the panel in addition to individual abstracts for each of the panel’s components.
Please send all information requested (the last name of the author being the file name) to the Program Committee Chair with the e-mail subject “AMS-SC 2025.”

AMS Board of Directors Meeting
2026-03-20 12:30 - 15:30, 2026-05-15 12:30 - 15:30, 2026-07-17 12:30 - 15:30, 2026-09-18 12:30 - 15:30 (America/New_York) | Online
This is a regularly scheduled meeting of the AMS Board of Directors. Closed meeting.

Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl
2026-04-09 19:00 - 20:00 (America/New_York) | Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, 1100 E 9th Street, Cleveland, OH, 44114, United States
In this AMS/Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Lecture to be held 9 April at 7:00 p.m. ET, Dan DiPiero contextualizes the approach to studying indie rock before outlining some core examples from Big Feelings: Queer and Feminist Indie Rock After Riot Grrrl. Jump back in time to discuss the original indie music scene in the UK of the 1980s, and how gendered dynamics obscured the contributions of indie pop at the time. Discover the lasting impact of this movement on younger generations, where indie-pop languages mix together with a harder, alt-rock sound associated in public consciousness with white/male pain.

AMS Southwest Chapter Meeting
2026-04-10 - 2026-04-11 | Texas A&M University-Kingsville School of Music, 775 N Armstrong St, Kingsville, TX, 78363, United States
The AMS Southwest Chapter is pleased to announce its Spring 2026 meeting, to be held 10–11 April 2026 at the Texas A&M University-Kingsville School of Music. In addition to paper sessions, the meeting will feature a keynote speaker, performances, and an optional excursion to the Padre Island National Seashore.

2026 Ibero-American Music Readings: A Discussion on Latest Publications
2026-04-10 12:00 (America/New_York) | Online
During this event, Louise K. Stein, Javier Suárez-Pajares, and Walter Aaron Clark will present their latest publications and engage in dialogue with discussants Dinko Fabris and Daniel Jordan. Finally, there will be an open discussion.
This event will be held on 10 April 2026 at 12:00 p.m. ET. This event is free and open to all, but registration is required.
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Presentations:
The Marqués, the Divas, and the Castrati. Gaspar de Haro y Guzmán and Opera in the Early Modern Spanish Orbit (New York: Oxford University Press, 2024) by Louise K. Stein (University of Michigan, Ann Arbor)
Discussant: Dinko Fabris (Università della Basilicata, Potenza)

A Light in the Darkness: The Music and Life of Joaquín Rodrigo (New York: W. W. Norton & Co., 2024) by Javier Suárez-Pajares (Universidad Complutense de Madrid), and Walter Aaron Clark (University of California, Riverside)
Discussant: Daniel Jordan (University of Toronto)

East Asian Music and Stories in the Contemporary US
2026-04-17 17:00 (America/New_York) | New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The East Asian Music in the Contemporary World (EAMCW) Initiave is a creative-research initiative founded in 2025 by Hippocrates Cheng and fellow colleagues, in collaboration with North America–based musicians specializing in East Asian instruments and scholars focusing on East Asian music and its contemporary expressions.
As part of the EAMCW Initiative’s New York tour, Hong-Da Chin 陈宏达, Junghwa Lee 이정화, and Thomas Piercyトーマス・ピアシー will present a talk and performance on Friday, 17 April 2026 at 5:00 p.m. at New York University. During the talk, these artists will share their traditional and contemporary music repertoires, their stories performing in the United States.
This event is free, but registration is required.
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AMS Midwest Chapter Meeting
2026-04-18 - 2026-04-19 | University of Nebraska-Lincoln, Lincoln, NE, United States
The Spring 2026 Chapter Meeting of the AMS Midwest Chapter will take place at the University of Nebraska-Lincoln on Saturday and Sunday, 18–29 April 2026. More information will become available in the spring.

Amy Beach: Path-Breaking American Musician
2026-04-22 19:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York) | Library of Congress, Washington, DC
In this AMS/Library of Congress Lecture, E. Douglas Bomberger gives a talk on a major figure in American music, the remarkable composer and pianist Amy Beach (1867–1944). Beach was the earliest American female composer whose works are still regularly heard today, on the radio, concerts and streaming platforms. Beach’s Mass in E-flat major and her Gaelic Symphony were premiered by the Boston Symphony Orchestra in the 1890’s, to acclaim by both critics and audiences. The Library of Congress holds the manuscript of both those orchestral works along with several others in the A.P. Schmidt Company Archives. Beach’s long and eminently successful career included a number of European tours, and performances of her piano concertos in which she was the soloist.
This event is free, but tickets are required.
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2026 NYU/AMS Lecture
2026-04-24 16:30 (America/New_York) | New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The 2026 NYU/AMS Lecture, “Unsettled Sounds: The Critical Frame of Arab-Jewish Musical Inheritance,” will be held on Friday, 24 April 2026 at 4:30 p.m. EDT at New York University. Attendance is free, but registration is required.
This lecture will be presented by Tamar Sella (University of North Texas). Visit the event page for more details.

AMS New England Chapter Meeting
2026-04-25 | Northeastern University, Boston, MA, United States
The AMS New England Chapter announces its meeting of Spring 2026, to take place on 25 April hosted by Northeastern University, Boston, MA. We are delighted to announce that writer, scholar and critic, Jeremy Eichler (Tufts University), will be joining us to discuss his public humanities work as a long-time writer in the Boston Globe, as well as the author of the award-winning book, Time’s Echo: Music, Memory, and the Second World War.
For more information please visit https://www.newengland.ams-net.org/?p=1551

AMS New York State – St. Lawrence Chapter Meeting
2026-05-01 - 2026-05-02 | Universty of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
The 2026 Annual Meeting of the New York State St. Lawrence Chapter of the American Musicological Society will take place on Friday and Saturday, 1–2 May in Toronto, hosted by the Faculty of Music, University of Toronto and chaired by Professor Carolyne Sumner.

AMS Pacific Southwest Chapter Meeting
2026-05-02 09:00 - 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | California Polytechnic University, San Obispo, San Obispo, CA, United States
The AMS Pacific Southwest Chapter is pleased to invite you to RSVP for its spring meeting. The meeting will be held on 2 May 2026 from 9:00 a.m.–6:00 p.m. at the California Polytechnic University, San Luis Obispo.
The final program for the day is posted on the chapter website.

AMS Greater New York Chapter Meeting
2026-05-09 | New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10003, United States
The next meeting of the AMS Greater New York will take place on Saturday, 9 May at New York University. The chapter invites 250 word proposals showcasing research in any area of musical scholarship. By 2 April, e-mail the proposal, a brief biography, your name, phone number, e-mail address, and affiliation to both DrJSDailey [at] aol.com and Jonathan.waxman [at] gmail.com, with the heading “AMSGNY Spring 2026” in the subject line. Paste everything into the e-mail. Please do not send attachments.

Teaching Music History Conference
2026-06-05 - 2026-06-07 | New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10003, United States
Registration is now available for the 2026 Teaching Music History Conference. The conference will take place at New York University, in New York, NY between 5–7 June 2026. The conference will include a special workshop presented by Dr. Kwami Coleman in conjunction with the AMS Many Musics of America project which will explore methods for teaching improvisation and its history in American music in the K–12 classroom.

Studying Early Music with Computers: Tools, Formats, and Strategies
2026-06-14 08:00 - 2026-06-26 17:00 (America/New_York) | New York University, 20 Cooper Square, Floor 3, New York, NY, 10003, United States
In summer 2026, the American Musicological Society (AMS) will host a two-week residential Institute for Higher Education Faculty entitled Studying Early Music with Computers: Tools, Formats, and Strategies at New York University, 14–26 June 2026. This institute will apply insights from recent scholarship in humanistic music studies (musicology, music theory, music analysis, etc.) and digital humanities to organize an innovative program for the machine-assisted study of medieval, Renaissance, and Baroque Music. It will bring together an interdisciplinary group of leading scholars and teachers engaged in using computers to do research on music history and theory and who are interested in involving students in their projects.
Studying Early Music with Computers: Tools, Formats, and Strategies will provide support for thirty (30) participants and consist primarily of practitioner workshops and seminars on specific tools, formats, and machine-assisted investigative strategies. Through both expert talks and interactive workshops, participants will be equipped with the knowledge needed to advance their own research and teaching, including detailed explorations of the technical, infrastructural, and funding requirements necessary for conceiving, developing, deploying, and maintaining digital humanities projects and programs for the study of early music (c. 1000–1750 CE). Each participant will receive a stipend of $2200 to support attendance and travel, as well as access to reduced-rate NYU dorm accommodations. The 2026 AMS summer institute will be co-directed by Julie E. Cumming and Richard Freedman, and will feature workshops and seminars facilitated by Megan Kaes Long, Chris White, Reba Wissner, Jennifer Bain, Karen Desmond, Ichiro Fujinaga, Debra Lacoste, Cory McKay, Emiliano Ricciardi, Craig Sapp, and Martha Thomae. The institute website and instructions on how to apply will be made available on 8 December 2025.

2026 Junior Scholar Symposium
2026-06-16 - 2026-06-18 | Case Western Reserve University, Cleveland, OH, United States
The Popular Music Study Group of the American Musicological Society and the Center for Popular Music Studies at Case Western Reserve University, in collaboration with the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives, will host their 7th biennial developmental symposium 16–18 June 2026.
Aimed towards scholars of popular music interested in or working in academic positions, the Junior Scholar Symposium consists of writing workshops, professional development workshops, and group discussions. A substantial part of the program includes workshopping a journal article or book chapter with senior scholars and other symposium participants. This year, the program will include a visit to the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame Library & Archives.
Senior scholars this year include Norma Coates, Daniel Goldmark, Nadine Hubbs, Loren Kajikawa, Maureen Mahon, and S. Alexander Reed.
The symposium will take place on campus at Case Western Reserve University, and the Center for Popular Music Studies provides free on-campus dormitory housing for Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Participants will be expected to cover their own meals and travel to the conference. A registration fee of $75 covers fees related to the symposium, but there are a limited number of scholarships for those for whom this cost is prohibitive.

Reflections: A World-Premiere Performance
2026-08-30 16:00 (America/New_York) | Neve Shalom, 250 Grove Avenue, Metuchen, NJ, 08840, United States
Songs by Trevor Weston, with Words and Music by Ignatius Sancho
In this concert, soprano Sonya Headlam and historical keyboardist Rebecca Cypess present the world-premiere performance of Reflections, a song cycle for voice and historical piano by New Jersey-based composer Trevor Weston. Weston’s pieces are based on excerpts from the correspondence of Ignatius Sancho, an eighteenth-century Black writer and composer who was also the first Black British person to cast a vote in an election. Sancho’s writings address topics ranging from everyday life to religion and family to the horrors of the international slave trade, and he encoded subtle antiracist messages in his music. The concert also features songs and instrumental music written by Sancho himself, as well as works by other composers and writers of African descent from the eighteenth-century Atlantic world.

2026 Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival
2026-09-10 - 2026-09-13 | Kennedy Creek Resort, 3001 High Valley Road, Suches, GA, 30572, United States
The Kennedy Creek Old-Time Music Festival takes place every autumn at the Kennedy Creek Resort in Suches, Georgia. This year’s festival features workshops and performances by Corn Tippers and the Four O’Clocks.
Participants are invited to reserve cabins, yurts, or campsites, and food is available at the resort restaurant. Guest artists teach workshops, lead competitions, and present concerts, but the main event is always jamming with friends. Admission is free.
This event will be held as part of the Many Musics of America event series.
