14-15 June 2012
European Association of Development Research and Training Institutes
Bonn,  Germany

This Masterclass will focus on key aspects of evaluation in the context of development projects and programs. Training participants will be able to discuss tasks to conduct during an evaluation in the planning, implementation and reporting phase.   For details go to website.

10 November 2012
Conservatorium Open Academy
Sydney  NSW  Australia

This workshop will examine current research in the field of music education and student engagement. Participants will learn how to design extra-curricular programs that are culturally inclusive and draw on the skills, needs and interests of the students and members of the school community.  Full details on website.

23 June 2012
Conservatorium Open Academy
Sydney  NSW  Australia

Technology in the Music Classroom Saturday 23 June, 9am-12pm This workshop is designed to support teaching and learning with technology in the music classroom.  Details on website.

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.

website

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

website

26 May - 2 June 2012
Perth  WA  Australia

Presented by the Western Australian Music Industry Association (WAM), the annual WAMi Festival celebrates original WA music through extensive program of multi-genre, live, local music showcasing, associated music industry events, music business conference, and the WAMi Awards

website

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.

website

25 May - 11 June 2012
Sydney  NSW  Australia

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26-29 July 2012
Devonport,  Tas  Australia

Devonport Jazz is an annual music festival in the City of Devonport on Tasmania's northwest coast.

website

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.

2-5 November 2012
Wangaratta,  Vic  Australia

For details go to 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

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?
website

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.

Website

27 July - 4 August 2012
Townsville  Qld  Australia

Held annually in July and August, the Festival was established to enhance the cultural environment of North Queensland by presenting internationally acclaimed classical musicians to audiences from Townsville, around Australia and overseas.  Full details on website.

26 May - 2 June 2012
The West Australian Music Industry Association
Perth  WA  Australia

The WAMi Festival returns to Perth 26 May to 2 June 2012 for an 8-day celebration of local, original contemporary music. The Festival also offers a series of WA regional tours throughout May.  Full details on website.

27 July - 5 August
Torino,  Italy

This experience of international chorality lands for the first time in Italy, from 27th July to 5th August! The festival offers more than 50 ateliers for choirs and individual singers, of any level and on every musical genre. There will be special programmes for conductors and composers and also training courses for young choral and musical managers.  Full details on website.

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.

31 August - 21 September 2012
Karratha,  WA  Australia

Artist Application Deadline: 14 April 2012

Building on the momentous success achieved in 2011, this year’s festival promises to exceed last year’s achievements by delivering quality arts programing for the community of Pilbara and tourists visiting the Pilbara region.

1-10 June 2012
Melbourne  Vic  Australia

Jazz royalty and the new wave of powerhouse musicians converge on Melbourne from all points of the globe, in a program that celebrates life as it should be – a complete immersion in the joys of music – for the 2012 Melbourne International Jazz Festival
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8-23 June 2012
Adelaide  SA  Australia

Quirky and unique, the art form of cabaret has created a safe haven for those artists who generally escape definition, artists who enjoy the “up close and personal” nature of a live audience and who thrive on the challenge of presenting work that provokes and inspires.
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.

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.
Website.

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.

15-17 June 2012
Darwin  NT  Australia

For program and information go to 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.

13-15 November 2012
Sydney Symphony
Australia

Entries close: 21 September 2012

A national project identifying composition talent – open to all Australian high school students. Successful student compositions are workshopped by Richard Gill and members of Sydney Symphony Sinfonia.

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.

24 June - 1 July 2012
Sydney  NSW  Australia

Performers Application Deadline: 1 December 2011

Ensembles, bands and choirs from around the world apply for the opportunity to perform at some of Sydney's best venues.  Workshops, concerts and adjudicated performances.
Festival website

17-19 August 2012
Bellingen  NSW  Australia

Staged in and around Beautiful Bellingen with its pristine river and historic streetscape, from a modest start in 1990, the Bellingen Jazz and Blues Festival is now among the most respected Jazz Festivals in Australia.
Festival website

8-11 June 2012
Bellingen  NSW  Australia

Bellingen Music Festival is run entirely by a committee of volunteers dedicated to bringing the best of classical music to the NSW mid-north coast.
Festival 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.

26 April - 31 May 2012
Australia-wide

The Australian Innovation Festival is a national festival established in 2002 to encourage and support networking and business opportunities for participants in the areas of research & development, and technology commercialisation across all industry areas. he 2012 Festival Theme ‘Creating the Knowledge Economy’ will be supported by the continuing focus on the four C’s of innovation - Creativity, Connections, Collaboration and Commercialisation. 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.

23-26 August 2012
Gympie  QLD  Australia

Artist Application Deadline: 31 December 2011

The Gympie Music Muster is an annual event held over 6 action-packed days in one of Queensland's beautiful national state parks.

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.

WEBSITE

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.
WEBSITE

27 July - 5 August 2012
Torino,  Italy

Choir Participation Application Deadline: 30 November 2011

The festival offers more than 50 ateliers for choirs and individual singers, of any level and on every musical genre. There will be special programmes for conductors and composers and also training courses for young choral and musical managers.
WEBSITE

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

WEBSITE

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

Call for Papers Deadline: 1 October 2011

WEBSITE

2-5 October 2012
Adelaide,  SA  Australia

Call for Papers, Workshops Deadline: 8 October 2011

Full information on WEBSITE

23-24 February 2012
The University of Tübingen
Tübingen  Germany

The workshop aims at all PhD-students, postdocs and researchers who are interested in the neural mechanisms of music and language processing, especially those which might be shared by or separated in both modalities. It will cover the three areas of auditory processing: music, language and non-speech signals.
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