NEWS: The Fourteenth Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music will be held at Queen's University, Belfast. The dates have been confirmed as 30 June-4 July, 2010 (please update your diary if you had the earlier provisional dates of 7-11 July, 2010)
13th Biennial International Conference on Baroque Music
2nd - 6th July 2008
The Biennial Conference on Baroque Music, instituted in 1984, has become one of the most important musicological meetings in the academic calendar. A large number of delegates from Europe, North America and Australasia have attended the most recent conferences held at Dublin (2000), La Rioja (2002), Manchester (2004) and Warsaw (2006).
The Thirteenth conference in Leeds will continue the well-established tradition of previous meetings, and will offer a stimulating cultural and academic environment. The conference will take full advantage of the excellent facilities offered by the School of Music, and will include an introduction to the Special Collections of the University of Leeds Brotherton Library, and an opening concert of English anthems and organ music in the Clothworkers' Centenary Concert Hall.
The School of Music at the University of Leeds is the largest music department in the UK HE sector. It promotes a uniquely diverse yet coherent portfolio of research, encompassing art, popular and world musics, performance, technology, psychology and composition. The School is housed in a purpose-built building at the heart of the University campus, which includes the very fine Clothworkers’ Centenary Concert Hall.
The conference has been scheduled to coincide with the beginning of the York Early Music Festival, and will include a trip to the festival performance of Handel's Israel in Egypt at the York Minster on Saturday 5 July.
A selection of new and used books and scores will be offered for sale by Philip Martin Music Books of York.
Deadlines
Call for papers: 19 October 2007
Paper proposal submission: 14 January 2008
Chairman: Peter Holman (University of Leeds)
Conference Co-ordinator: Bryan White (University of Leeds)
Scientific Committee: Peter Holman, Chair
Stuart Cheyney, David Cranmer, Robin A. Leaver, Michael Talbot, Jeffrey Kurtzman, David Ledbetter, Szymon Paczkowski, Stephen Rose
Contact: baroque@leeds.ac.uk
