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2026 University of Toronto Graduate Music Conference – Call for Papers
When: Saturday, March 7 – Sunday, March 8, 2026
Where: Edward Johnson Building, 80 Queen’s Park, Toronto, ON M5S 2C5
Keynote speaker: Professor Brigid Cohen, New York University
The program committee welcomes proposals for the annual Graduate Music Conference to be hosted by the University of Toronto Music Graduate Students’ Association. It will take place in-person from March 7-8, 2026.
The committee invites graduate students to submit proposals for 20-minute paper presentations (with a 10-minute question period) or 30-minute lecture-recitals. We encourage the submission of papers on all genres of music and in any area of music research, including, but not limited to, musicology, music theory, ethnomusicology, performance, music education, composition, music technology, and music and health.
Abstracts for individual papers and lecture-recitals should be no more than 300 words. Applicants may include up to one page of references and one page of supplementary materials, where necessary. All abstracts will be anonymized, so please do not include any information in the abstract that could identify the author.
All applications must be made through this form by Friday, December 19, 2025. If you have any questions please don’t hesitate to contact us.
Submission Guidelines
In the linked submission form, you will be asked to include the following additional information:
- Author’s name
- Institutional affiliation
- Institutional email address
Abstracts must be submitted as either a Word file (.docx) or a PDF (.pdf). Please ensure there is no information that could identify the author in the abstract or anywhere else in the document (including its name).
You may direct any inquiries to the conference email address uoftmusicgsc26 -at- gmail.com, and we invite applicants to inform us about any accessibility accommodations. This event is an in-person conference, but we will make every effort to accommodate accessibility needs where possible. We look forward to receiving your proposals!
On behalf of the 2026 Conference Committee,
Gabriella Vici and Nolan Sprangers
Graduate Conference Co-chairs
