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Conferences: Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (sempre)

General Information

SEMPRE runs a series of one- and two-day conferences at higher-education institutions across the UK that cover a range of themes in music education and psychology research. Normally, two one-day conferences are held each year in Autumn (September/October) and Spring (March/April) with a two-day international conference taking place every other year in the Spring slot. These events are arranged by the SEMPRE Conference Secretary in collaboration with local organisers from the hosting institution. All of the events are open to SEMPRE members and non-members, and students are especially encouraged to attend. Programmes normally include spoken presentations, poster displays, keynote addresses as well as other features, such as live performances, workshops, and discussion fora. Student study days are also planned either in conjunction with or in addition to the above events. Please browse the website for details of forthcoming and past conferences, including calls for papers, registration/booking forms, conference reviews and abstracts/presentations of recent events. If you are interested in hosting a SEMPRE conference, please contact the SEMPRE Conference Secretary.

SEMPRE offers awards to support delegates attending conferences in order to assist them with their research endeavour. In this way, SEMPRE provides support to major and smaller conferences run by other societies and research communities as a formal association is established.

SEMPRE is currently offering FREE membership for one year to non-members who attend a SEMPRE conference. To take advantage of this offer, please complete a FREE Membership Application Form which will be available in delegate packs at the next SEMPRE conference.

Proposals for papers with abstracts of up to 250 words and brief, relevant curricula vita should be submitted to the Conference Secretary.email address

SEMPRE Forthcoming Conferences

  • Spring 2010: Empirical Musicology II: Approaches to Performance (25-26 March, University of Leeds) Online booking now open
  • Autumn 2010: Music, Technology & Education (September, Scarborough campus, University of Hull) (details to be added here soon)
  • Spring 2011: Developing the Musician (University of Reading (details to be added here soon)
  • Autumn 2011: Music and Health (University of Canterbury, Kent) (details to be added here soon)

Conferences in association with SEMPRE in 2010

SEMPRE Past Conferences

Forthcoming conferences

Empirical Musicology II: Empirical Approaches to Performance, 25-26 March 2010, School of Music, University of Leeds

The first Empirical Musicology Conference in April 2007 demonstrated the contribution that empirical approaches can bring to bear on a range of musicological issues. This two-day International Conference will continue to explore the diversity of empirical approaches within the discipline by focusing on performance, highlighting the contribution that such methods can bring to knowledge, understanding and application within this and related disciplines.

Proposals for papers are invited on any topic relating to the use of empirical methods for understanding performance, including (but not restricted to) practical matters, critical appraisals, educational, psychological and theoretical perspectives. The conference will also include a poster display. Contributions are welcome from researchers at all levels and are especially encouraged from postgraduate students and researchers early in their careers. Please send abstracts for papers (200 words) and posters (100 words) via email to Dr Luke Windsor, School of Music, University of Leeds (w.l.windsor@leeds.ac.uk) by 2 November 2009.

Call for papers [PDF 263KB]

Online booking

Conference Programme

Conference Queries

  • Dr Karen Burland & Dr Luke Windsor
  • School of Music
  • University of Leeds
  • Leeds, LS2 9JT
  • United Kingdom
  • Emails: k.burland@leeds.ac.uk, w.l.windsor@leeds.ac.uk
  • Website: http://www.leeds.ac.uk/music, http://www.icsrim.org.uk

CIM10 Nature versus Culture, 23rd-24th July 2010, University of Sheffield, UK

CALL FOR PAPERS: SECOND ROUND OF SUBMISSIONS

The conference on interdisciplinary musicology to be held in 2010 aims to bring together representatives of the arts and humanities, the sciences, and musical practice who are involved in research on the relationship between nature and culture in musical behaviour, thinking and sound. Session themes currently include:

  • Cognitive and physical constraints shaping musical materials and compositional practices
  • Embodied music cognition, entrainment and musical meaning
  • Biological and cultural influences on the experience of emotions with music
  • Musical universals and musical specializations
  • Evolution and biomusicology
  • Zoomusicology
  • Language and music
  • How culture and biology shape the phenomenal experience of musical expectation

Submissions are encouraged that are related to these sub-areas or the general theme of nature versus culture in music.

Keynote speakers: Prof David Huron (School of Music, Ohio State University), Dr Lauren Stewart (Department of Psychology, Goldsmiths, University of London)

The Conferences on Interdisciplinary Musicology promote collaborations between sciences and humanities, between theory and practice, as well as interdisciplinary combinations that are new, unusual, creative, or otherwise especially promising. For this reason each submission must have at least two authors who represent different disciplines.

Deadline: 27 January 2010

E-mail submissions to: CIM10@sheffield.ac.uk

Further information from: http://www.sheffield.ac.uk/cim10/index.html

CIM10 is directed by: Dr Nicola Dibben & Dr Renee Timmers, Department of Music, University of Sheffield, UK.

CIM10 is presented in collaboration with the European Society for Cognitive Sciences of Music (ESCOM), the European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM), the International Musicological Society (IMS), and the Society for Education, Psychology and Music Research (SEMPRE).

Past conferences

Music and Familiarity

Recital Room (Music)
University of Hull
Saturday 24 October 2009

This one-day conference included invited presentations and selected submissions from researchers on the theme of music and familiarity. Our engagement with and exposure to music constantly changes and develops, whether through creative pursuits -such as composing, performing and listening- or through particular contexts, including education and therapy. This conference explored these changes and developments, notably in the ways our attitudes towards music evolve, how our perceptions, understanding and appreciation of it alters, in the strategies we develop as practising musicians, and in the responses we experience when listening to or engaging with music.

Read a review of this conference by Anthony Fountain (University of Hull).

Postgraduate Study Day: Research in Music Psychology and Education

Recital Room (Music)
University of Hull
Friday 23 October 2009

This SEMPRE Postgraduate Study Day was hosted by the Department of Drama and Music, University of Hull, and preceded the SEMPRE conference on 'Music and Familiarity' held on Saturday 24 October. The aim of the Postgraduate Study Day was to provide opportunities for research students to present and discuss ideas in a friendly and supportive environment, as well as to create a meeting place for students from different institutions. The event included spoken presentations (20 minutes each), a poster display, and open discussions about research in music psychology and education led by invited academics.

Read a review of this conference by Anthony Fountain (University of Hull).

The Reflective Conservatoire

The Reflective Conservatoire - Building Connections
28 February - 3 March 2009
Guildhall School of Music & Drama and Barbican Conference Centre, London.

Following the success of the first Reflective Conservatoire Conference: Apprentices & Sorcerers? held in February 2006, the Guildhall School of Music & Drama will host a second International Conference in partnership with various organisations, including the Society for Education, Music & Psychology Research (SEMPRE). The Conference will bring together leading researchers, professional performers and teachers from all over the world, to address the following key issues within music in Higher Education in papers and practical workshops: Teaching for learning; Artistry and creativity, Playing together - collaboration, exchange and partnership; Health, well-being and the student experience; Lifelong learning and performing artists in the 21st century.

[more info]

Conference Flyer [PDF 185KB]

Read a review of this conference (Author: Dr Cynthia Stephens-Benson, Bowling Green State University)

Musical Development and Learning Conference

2nd European Conference on Developmental Psychology of Music
10-12 September 2008
Roehampton University, London, UK

This interdisciplinary conference built on the success of the 1st European Conference on Developmental Psychology of Music, held in the Department of Music, University of Jyväskylä, Finland, in November 2005. The conference encouraged and stimulated discussion on a range of topics relating to music across the lifespan, focusing on its developmental and educational implications, and bringing together a wide diversity of European and International researchers. It provided valuable opportunities for interdisciplinary debates between established researchers, and research training experiences for postgraduate students, from a range of different backgrounds.

SEMPRE Student Conference

Centre for Music and Science
University of Cambridge
Saturday 18 October 2008

On Saturday 18 October 2008, the Society for Education, Music and Psychology Research (SEMPRE) run a one-day student conference hosted by the Centre for Music and Science at the Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge. Building on the success of the SEMPRE student conference in Sheffield in October 2007, this student conference provided a supportive and encouraging environment for delegates to
(1) present their research at various stages of its development and
(2) hone their presentations skills in front of a friendly audience.

[more info]

Empirical Musicology

Institute of Musical Research
02 to 03 April 2008

While the ‘new’ musicology of the 1990s brought cultural studies to the heart of musicology, another less trumpeted but equally important development has been that of empirical approaches to music: once seen as the preserve of music psychology and sociology, there is a growing realization that such approaches can be brought to bear on a wide range of musicological issues and problems. This two-day International Conference explored the diversity of empirical approaches to music today, and situated musicology in the context of its disciplinary neighbours.

[please click here for a review of the conference (PDF document, 76 kilobytes)]

Musical Participation

University of Sheffield
20 October 2007

This one-day conference included invited presentations and selected submissions from researchers on the study of musical participation. This theme was broadly defined to include investigations of making and hearing music in a wide range of genres and in a variety of social settings.

The final programme is available here.

[more info]

SEMPRE one-day student research conference on Musical Behaviour and Experience

University of Sheffield, UK
19 October 2007

The aim of this conference was to provide opportunities for students to present and discuss ideas in a friendly and supportive environment, as well as to create a meeting place for students from different institutions. It preceded the SEMPRE Musical Participation conference on 20th October and students were warmly invited to attend both.

For more information please visit (pdf document) http://www.sempre.org.uk/resources/studentoct07.pdf and for a booking form please open (pdf document) http://www.sempre.org.uk/resources/studentoct07reg.pdf, or contact the organisers: Alison Daubney (a.daubney@roehampton.ac.uk) or Melissa Dobson (mup06md@sheffield.ac.uk).

The programme of the student conference is available here.

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Remember!

Please visit the Society's Conferences page for further information about:
1.Empirical Musicology II: Empirical Approaches to Performance, 25-26 March 2010, School of Music, University of Leeds (online booking now open! the deadline for booking is 16 March)and
2. CIM10 Nature versus Culture, 23rd-24th July 2010, University of Sheffield, UK

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