15 December 2025,London
Royal College of Music, London
Full details, including submission guidelines
Should you have any questions or require further information, please do not hesitate to get in touch with us.
We look forward to receiving your proposals and welcoming delegates to the Royal College of Music.
Keynote (Lecture Recital): Ralph van Raat
Roundtable Panel: Dr Inja Stanovic, Professor Roy Howat, Andrew Zolinsky
The Royal College of Music (RCM) is pleased to announce a one-day conference to promote discussion on practice-led approaches to the research of twentieth-century piano repertoire. A primary goal is to bring together scholars, performers, pedagogues and students to discuss shared concerns and to learn from each others’ perspectives and current methodologies. This event also aims to make practice-led research in 20th-century music accessible, discoverable, and relevant for all performers.
The conference’s programme committee invites proposals from postgraduate research students (e.g. PhD, MPhil, MRes), early-career researchers (graduated in the last three years) and postdoctoral fellows on the following topics, but not limited to:
Historical and contemporary performance practices of 20th-century piano music.
Performance-led research methodologies in 20th-century piano music.
Case studies of significant 20th-century piano works and their performance histories.
Early recordings, such as piano rolls, phonographs, and gramophones, and their analysis for performance practice in 20th-century piano music.
Cross-disciplinary approaches to performance and musicology.
Artistic intersections with 20th century performance practice (e.g., visual art, dance, theatre, and literature).
Proposals are invited for academic papers and lecture-recitals of no more than 20 minutes’ duration, to be followed by a ten-minute Q&A session. Proposals should be prepared as follows:
Academic papers: Submission must include an abstract (maximum of 300 words) and a biography (maximum of 100 words).
Lecture Recitals: Submission must include an abstract (maximum of 300 words) and a biography (maximum of 100 words), in addition to a sample video recording of a recent performance (5–15 minutes) and any special requirements.
A limited number of bursaries towards travel costs will be available to RMA members. Travel bursaries will be awarded on the basis of financial need at the discretion of the committee, and only to those who have also been selected to present at the conference. When submitting your proposal, please indicate if you would like to be considered for a travel bursary and briefly outline your expected costs to attend the conference.
All proposals should be submitted no later than 5pm on Monday 28 July 2025 by completing the form. Selected participants will receive a decision regarding their proposal by Monday 18 August 2025. Further details on the programme for the day will be circulated closer to the event.
Any questions should be directed via email to conference organisers Tal Walker and Nuno Lucas.
For more information, visit our website.
The working language of the conference will be English.
Programme committee (RCM): Professor Robert Adlington, Dr Christina Guillaumier, Andrew Zolinsky, Tal Walker, Nuno Lucas.
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