This semester's last @royalmusical.bsky.social Research Colloquia in Music will be Dr Reuben Phillips of @ox.ac.uk presenting – ‘Brahms’s Library: A Musical and Material History’. All welcome! 📆 Wed 19 Nov ⏰ 16:15 🏛️ Rm 118, Hetherington Bldg gla.ac.uk/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic

The Dachverband der Studierenden der Musikwissenschaften (DVSM) is hosting its 6th Master's Speed Dating Musicology event: dvsm-verband.de/speeddating-...

✨CALL FOR PAPERS✨ The RMA is seeking proposals for their Annual Conference, held jointly with the Society for Musicology in Ireland and the European Association for Dance History. 📍Queen's University Belfast See link in bio for details🔗 @royalmusical.bsky.social @qubelfastofficial.bsky.social

Prof. Katherine Butler Schofield awarded the AMS Otto Kindledey Award https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/13/prof-katherine-butler-schofield-awarded-the-ams-otto-kindledey-award/

Student Committee Election - Call for Candidates https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/12/student-committee-election-call-for-candidates-3/

Call for Papers: Global Musical Modernities and Local Agency, 7-10 May 2026, Toronto https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/11/09/call-for-papers-global-musical-modernities-and-local-agency-7-10-may-2026-toronto/

Boulez 100: International Conference Celebrating the Pierre Boulez Centenary “Boulez 100” will take place in Cleveland, Ohio, from Thursday November 13 to Saturday, November 15.

Our next @royalmusical.bsky.social colloquia features Dr Adriana Minu – @uofglasgow.bsky.social – who will give a presentation titled 'Sensing Sonic Difference: How Does an ADHD Body Do Composition?’. 📆 Tue 4 November 🕣 5:15pm 🏛️ ARC, Room 237C gla.ac.uk/music/events/rmaresearchcolloquiainmusic

We urge the Government in the strongest terms to reverse its decision to end the initial teacher training bursary for music in 2026-27 and to redouble its commitment to encouraging and facilitating prospective music teachers’ entry into the profession.

Statement on the Proposed Cancellation of the Initial Teacher Training Bursary for Music https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/31/statement-on-the-proposed-cancellation-of-the-initial-teacher-training-bursary-for-music/

University of Glasgow Research Colloquia in Music Glasgow hosts a series of colloquia on behalf of the Royal Musical Association featuring national and international guest speakers, along with staff and postgraduate students.

Taking place next week in Edinburgh: the symposium 'Pierre Boulez and his Cultural Legacy Today' (6/7 November, Institut Français d'Ecosse) edinboulez.blogspot.com

Interview with 2023 Jerome Roche Prize Winner Dr Shaena Weitz https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/28/interview-with-2023-jerome-roche-prize-winner-dr-shaena-weitz/

✨THE MUSICA BRITANNICA TRUST: LEWIS MEMORIAL PRIZE COMPETITION 2026✨ 🎹Founded by the Musica Britannica Trust in 1986 in memory of Sir Anthony Lewis, MB’s first General Editor and Chair, this competition commemorates the lives of Sir Anthony and his wife Lesley, Lady Lewis.🎹 Info below ⬇️:

Bodleian Library- Albi Rosenthal Visiting Fellowship in Music 2026-27 https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/22/bodleian-library-albi-rosenthal-visiting-fellowship-in-music-2026-27/

Join the RMA https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/20/join-the-rma/

Give https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/20/give/

Music in Eighteenth-Century Britain, 28 Nov 2025, The Foundling Museum https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/15/music-in-eighteenth-century-britain-28-nov-2025-the-foundling-museum/

Call for Applications: Lewis Memorial Prize Competition 2026 https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/10/call-for-applications-lewis-memorial-prize-competition-2026/

Lewis Memorial Prize Competition for keyboard players https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/09/lewis-memorial-prize-competition-for-keyboard-players/

The Royal Musical Association and Cambridge University Press Edited Book Prize for 2025 goes to Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for their edited collection 'Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century' (OUP, 2024).

Call for Papers: Chamber Music: Synergies through Time, Places and Spaces (Cardiff, 13 Mar 2026) We are delighted to announce the Call for Papers for our conference ‘Chamber music: synergies through time, places and spaces’.

The Royal Musical Association and Cambridge University Press Edited Book Prize for 2025 goes to Peter McMurray and Priyasha Mukhopadhyay for their edited collection 'Acoustics of Empire: Sound, Media and Power in the Long Nineteenth Century' (OUP, 2024).

RMA/CUP Edited Book Prize 2025 https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/08/rma-cup-edited-book-prize-2025/

Call for Papers: Chamber Music: Synergies through Time, Places and Spaces (Cardiff, 13 Mar 2026) https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/08/call-for-papers-chamber-music-synergies-through-time-places-and-spaces-cardiff-13-mar-2026/

Conference Report: 5th International Conference on Women’s Work in Music 2025 https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/10/06/conference-report-5th-international-conference-on-womens-work-in-music-2025/

Sound and Screen conference, and 'Music, Sound, and the Moving Image' at 20 symposium https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/30/sound-and-screen-conference-and-music-sound-and-the-moving-image-at-20-symposium/

Call for Papers: Music and Screen from Ethnic and Ethnographic Perspectives https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/24/call-for-papers-music-and-screen-from-ethnic-and-ethnographic-perspectives/

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Vacancy for Reviews Editor for both the Journal of the Royal Musical Association and Royal Musical Association Research Chronicle (new deadline of Monday 6 October) www.rma.ac.uk/2025/07/17/r...

RMA 2025 Practice Research Prize awarded to Sara Salloum https://www.rma.ac.uk/2025/09/19/rma-2025-practice-research-prize-awarded-to-sara-salloum/

The RMA Practice Research Prize for 2025 is awarded to Sara Salloum (University of Newcastle) for her thesis 'Female lute accomplishment and performance practices in early seventeenth-century England' (University of Durham).

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️ Following a request from the Musici Trust, the deadline for proposals for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference has been extended by one week to next Thursday, 25th September.

‼️ DEADLINE EXTENDED ‼️ Following a request from the Musici Trust, the deadline for proposals for the 2026 BFE/RMA Research Students' Conference has been extended by one week to next Thursday, 25th September.

The RMA/CUP 2025 Outstanding Monograph Book Prize is awarded to Jessica Swanston Baker for 'Island Time: Speed and the Archipelago from St. Kitts and Nevis'. Honourable mention also to Matthew D. Morrison (Stanford University) for 'Blacksound: Making Race and Popular Music in the United States'.

Reminder: the deadline for submitting your proposal to the BFE and RMA 2026 Research Students' Conference (Royal Birmingham Conservatoire) is this Thursday! www.bcu.ac.uk/conservatoir...

Had a brilliant few days at the RMA Conference. I presented on London’s sailortown and shanty repertoire (no one criticised my map-drawing skills!), and had a great time reconnecting with colleagues. Can’t wait for Belfast 2026! @royalmusical.bsky.social www.molliecarlyle.com/post/reflect...

Congratulations to our Dent medallist Prof. Sarah Collins! Sarah gave a brilliant keynote lecture yesterday, titled 'Habits of Realism'. Sarah was presented the Dent medal by the RMA President Simon Keefe.

It's the third and final day of our annual conference in Southampton! Let us know what you're looking forward to today, and what you've enjoyed over the conference. Tag us in your posts and we'll share.

Presented my report today at the @royalmusical.bsky.social annual conference, which was fun. Was really great to go to some of the other presentations and chat with people about all the cool things they're researching! #IvorsAcademy #RMA

Well done to our conference runners! As advertised in our programme, we met for a friendly and chatty 5k run bright and early this morning. A lovely way to start day 2 of the conference!

It's day two of our annual conference at Southampton! Let us know what you're looking forward to today, tag us in your posts and we'll share them.

Hello, #RMA2025! Stop by our stand for 50% off and free shipping on our latest books including Peter Holman and Bryan White's "The Purcell Compendium". Quote code BB131. buff.ly/EbyVhNj

It's day two of our annual conference at Southampton! Let us know what you're looking forward to today, tag us in your posts and we'll share them.

Well done to our conference runners! As advertised in our programme, we met for a friendly and chatty 5k run bright and early this morning. A lovely way to start day 2 of the conference!

On Friday, I will present my paper ‘The British School of Emotionalism and Metamodernism: Towards a New Expressive Paradigm in Contemporary Music’ at @royalmusical.bsky.social Conference 2025. See you there!

@royalmusical.bsky.social Day one! Talking about Avril Coleridge-Taylor and her tone poems from the 1930s. Also on the company of the brilliant Lizzie Bowes and Gayle Murchison.

Our Research & Data Manager Kerry is at the @royalmusical.bsky.social conference in Southampton today - the single biggest meeting point for music academics in higher education! 💡 Our CEO Bridget will be joining her tomorrow, do come and say hello 👋 🔗See more: www.southampton.ac.uk/music/RMACon...

It's day one of our annual conference at Southampton! Let us know what you're looking forward to today. www.southampton.ac.uk/music/RMACon...

✨ARAMAES✨ Don’t miss our interview with Dr Peter Asimov, winner of the 2025 Jerome Roche Prize, now available on the ARAMAES Student Forum! Dr Asimov discusses his article, musical journey, and advice for other early career researchers. Head to the link in our bio🔗 @camunimusic.bsky.social

✨ARAMAES✨ Do check out Luigi Monteanni's '"Elegie Pal Fischiosauro": an Experiment in Cryptid Sonic Ethnography’, now available on our student forum! See the link in our bio for ARAMAES and more!🔗