Royal Musical Association 53rd Annual Conference

University of Liverpool

7 – 9 September, 2017

Twitter hashtag: #RMAConf2017


The Royal Musical Association announces the biggest programme yet for 
its 53rd Annual Conference, which will be hosted by the University of 
Liverpoolfrom Thursday 7 to Saturday 9 September 2017.

The conference is the single event in the UK calendar that seeks to 
celebratethe entire range of current musical research in progress around 
the world in all its richness and diversity. Some quotes from 2016 
participants: ‘RMA Annual Conferences are going well. I think the “buzz” 
has returned’. ‘Lovely conference, with a great atmosphere’.

Featuring a packed schedule of panel sessions and papers, lecture 
recitals and lectures, presentations will encompass a wide variety of 
music and performance related disciplines. With wonderful opportunities 
for networking and engagement, this three-day conference promises to be 
diverse, lively and unmissable for anyone interested in the study of 
music and/or its performance.

Highlights include:

·RMA-Sponsored Peter Le Huray lecture by Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl

/Andrea Lindmayr-Brandl is Professor of Music at the University of 
Salzburg, a member of the International Musicological Society 
directorium and an authority on early Austrian music and music printing, 
on Schubert and much more besides./

·Presentation of the RMA’s annual Edward Dent Award Medal to Mark Katz, 
who will deliver the Dent lecture
/Mark Katz is Professor in Music History at the University of North 
Carolina at Chapel Hill and author of acclaimed books on how technology 
has changed music, on violin research and on the art and culture of the 
hip-hop DJ./

·A record 220 speakers and musicians from countless universities and 
colleges in eighteen different countries.Sixteen themed panel sessions, 
a further 96 individual presentations, and nine lecture-recitals on 
topics spanning 800 years and ranging over an astonishing number of 
corners of the globe.

RMA President Mark Everist says: ‘It is a great pleasure to welcome 
members and non-members to the RMA’s annual conference in Liverpool.  
The programme ranges wide across time, place and idiom, and promises to 
give us just the right environment for the sorts of creative engagement 
we expect from this event’.

The RMA Annual Conference 2017 takes place at the University of 
Liverpool. Social events, based around the conference schedule, will 
celebrate partnerships with the city’s cultural institutions such as The 
Royal Liverpool Philharmonic, the Tate Liverpool, and The Beatles Story. 
For more details, conference programme, updates and to book a place at 
the conference please visit the conference website: 
https://www.liverpool.ac.uk/music/rma2017/

For interviews and further information please contact:

Kenneth Smith, Senior Lecturer and Conference Director, University of 
Liverpool. Tel: +44 (0)151 794 2647. Email [log in to unmask] 
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Or:

Warwick Edwards, RMA Conferences Coordinator. Tel: +44-141-334 9229. 
email: [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>

For pictures please contact Katy Hamilton, RMA Membership Development 
Officer. Email [log in to unmask] <mailto:[log in to unmask]>


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Dr. Katy Hamilton
Membership Development Officer
Royal Musical Association
www.rma.ac.uk