Music Research Today 2026

[Stefan Östersjö]

With apologies for the late notice, Music Research Today, the annual cross-disciplinary conference will take place on October 7th - 9th, 2026 in Stockholm with the Royal College of Music as our host. Doctoral students are welcome to an extra event in the beginning of the conference, starting on the afternoon of October 6th.

This year's keynote speaker will be Daniel Leech-Wilkinson, Emeritus Professor of Music at Kings College London

Keynote: Feeling Performance: if music models lived experience, what follows?

This year's conference has a special focus on Musical Performance, which is reflected in the keynote presentations. This theme will thereby lay the groundwork for a coherent series of sessions across the program, while a diversity of other perspectives on music research will fill out the full picture.

The conference welcomes contributions on any topic related to research in musicology, music pedagogy, artistic research in music, music theory, music therapy, music psychology and music-related research in other disciplines. The conference particularly welcomes contributions related to this year’s theme and encourages participation from doctoral and master's students.

Musikforskning idag is organizing an introductory cross-disciplinary seminar for doctoral students at Swedish universities, starting on the evening of October 6th. The ambition is to stimulate conversation across disciplinary boundaries, and to create and develop contact surfaces through a moderated dialogue.

Download our Call for Papers and Upload your abstract at https://musikforskning.se/cfp2026.

Please submit your abstract no later than May 1st, 2026.

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Stefan Östersjö, PhD

Chaired professor of Musical Performance at Luleå University of Technology, Piteå School of Music

email: stefan....@ltu.se