2026
Please check back for new Zoom Colloquium announcements. Previous topics can be found below.
All colloquia are held on Zoom at 6.00-8.00pm GMT/BST. Zoom links and abstracts can be found in the section on each talk below and will be updated where necessary. Please always check back here for the zoom link as we update before each event.
Colloquiums
2026 Spring season
Convened by SMA trustees Dr James Donaldson and Dr Rajan Lal
26th March 2026: Laura Tunbridge (University of Oxford)
But what about the music? Negotiating the sonic and the social in a history of the string quartet
5th February 2026: Ellen Bakulina (McGill University)
Essential expositional and essential structural closure in Rachmaninoff’s piano concerti
2025 Season
Convened by SMA trustees Dr James Donaldson and Dr Rajan Lal
19th November 2025: Sam Reenan (University of Cincinnati, College-Conservatory of Music)
Symphonic Spectacles: Form, Identity, and Hybridity in the Early Twentieth Century
23rd October 2025: Inessa Bazayev, Daniel Elphick, Cecilia Oinas, Christopher Segall
Perspectives on Alfred Schnittke’s String Quartet No. 3
3rd April 2025: René Rusch (University of Michigan)
Schubert’s Enharmonicism Revisited
27th February 2025: Johanna Frymoyer (University of Notre Dame)
Modernist Movements: Listening for Topics in Schoenberg and Stravinsky (A Book Talk)
6th February 2025: Peter Asimov (University of Cambridge)
Mode de valeurs at 75: a meta-analysis and a new direction
2023-24 Season
Convened by SMA trustee Dr Oliver Chandler
2 November 2023: Jonathan De Souza (University of Western Ontario)
‘Musical Texture, Ensemble Coordination, and Social Network Analysis’
6 December 2023: Jason Yust (Boston University)
‘Periodicity and Continuity in Pitch and Time’
8 February 2024: Caitlin Martinkus (Cleveland Institute of Music)
‘Revisiting Expectations for the Opening Ritornello in Louis Spohr’s Violin Concerti’
7 March 2024: Annika Forkert (RNCM)
4 April 2024: Nicolas Meeùs (Paris-Sorbonne)
‘Once Again, Schenkerian Semiotics’
2 May 2024: Robert Gjerdingen (Northwestern)
‘Harmony in a Cold Climate: Class and Classrooms in Music Theory’
6 June 2024: Rachel Gain (Yale)
‘Music Analysis Beyond the Audible: Rhythm Tap Dance, Embodied Syntax, and Visual Musicality’
2023 Season
2rd February 2023: Dr Thomas Husted Kirkegaard (University of Copenhagen)
“Not Another Paper on Harmonic Function!”
2rd March 2023: Dr Jennifer Harding (University of Massachusetts Amherst)
“Harmony of Score and Stage: Analytical Insights through the Discrete Fourier Transform.”
April 6th 2023: Dr José Oliveira Martins (Universidade de Coimbra)
“Harmonic imagination and register relations in twentieth-century music: altered octaves and the modelling of pitch-space qualities.”
May 4th 2023: Profs. Marina Mezzina (Conservatorio di Musica in Salerno) & Catello Gallotti (Martucci Conservatory of Music, Salerno, Italy)
Journeys through Romantic Music: Towards an Expressive Approach to Musical Structure
June 1st 2023 (6.30pm ! UK)
GmTH/SMA Roundtable on Music Theory in pre-University Education
June 29th 2023: Dr John Koslovsky (Conservatorium van Amsterdam / Utrecht University)
Structural Fantasies and Variations: A Salzerian Perspective
2022 Season
3rd February 2022: Dr Sebastian Wedler (University of Oxford)
“Rethinking Late Webern” (click for abstract)
[Not streamed on Youtube; Zoom only]
31st March 2022: Prof Kofi Agawu (CUNY)
Music Studies in Crisis? Notes and Queries on Reframing Music Theory (click for abstract)
7th April 2022: Prof Nicole Biamonte (McGill)
“Current Issues in Popular-Music Analysis”
5th May 2022: Dr Nancy Murphy (Assistant Professor, Houston)
“Times-A-Changin’: Flexible Meter as Self-Expression in Singer-Songwriter music”
9th June 2022: Dr Cecilia Oinas (Sibelius Academy, Helsinki)
“Together in Performance: Examining (the) Pitch-Based Bonding in Ensemble Playing”
7th July 2022: Prof Joseph Straus (CUNY)
“Musical Modernism and the Representation of Disability”
