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.

AMS Board of Directors Meeting
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.

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.

2026 AMS Annual Meeting - Online
2026-11-14 08:00 - 2026-11-20 17:00 (America/New_York) | Online
The 92nd AMS Annual Meeting will be held online 14–15 November and 19–20 November 2026. The AMS Annual Meeting is a forum for the exploration of music as a branch of scholarship and learning. Organized with participation by members of the International Musicological Society (IMS) and the support and voluntary service of AMS committee members, the 2026 online annual meeting will focus on forging and strengthening connections with the international community of music experts. With a mixture of streamed in-person programming from around the world and fully virtual session that maximize accessibility, the 2026 AMS Annual Meeting is a can’t-miss event for music studies professionals.
