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The Rocky Mountain Chapter of the American Musicological Society is pleased to announce the call for papers for the Chapter’s Annual Meeting, this year hosted at University of Northern Colorado, March 26-27, 2027. This will be a fully in-person event.

This year the Chapter will meet jointly with the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the Society for Music Theory and the Society for Ethnomusicology Southwestern Chapter.

Dates: Friday-Saturday, March 26-27, 2027

Location: Frasier Hall, University of Northern Colorado, Greeley, CO,

Submission Deadline: 11:55pm MST, November, 14, 2026

Here is the CFP for Rocky Mountain AMS

Here is the CFP for SEM SWC

If you wish to submit a theory proposal, please visit the Rocky Mountain Society of Music Theory website.

Decision Notification Date on or before December 7, 2026.  Written confirmation of invitation acceptance required no later than December 24, 2026. Final list of invited and confirmed presenters to be made by December 30, 2026.

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We invite paper submissions on any topic related to musicology, broadly defined. Each presentation will be twenty minutes, plus ten-minute discussions.

• Individual papers: Submit by email (single Word or PDF attachment): title plus abstract (up to 350 words). (20 minutes)
• Sessions on a single topic: Submit by email (single sender): proposed session title, along with all abstracts for the session (individually titled Word or PDF attachments, 350 words or less per abstract). (three 20-minute papers)
• Roundtable discussions: Submit by email (single Word or PDF attachment): session title plus an abstract (up to 450 words). (90 minute sessions)

For all submissions, please do not include names or affiliations in Word/PDF attachments. Include in the email body only the name(s) of the presenter(s), along with institutional affiliation(s), if applicable, and whether or not you are a student (undergraduate, masters, or doctoral) or a professional.  According to Chapter bylaws, papers submitted by undergraduate or master’s students must be accompanied by faculty letters of endorsement (not to be shared with the selection committee).

All papers will be chosen by the selection committee through a blind-review process.

There will be an award for the best student paper presented at the conference. Students who wish to be considered should declare their interest on the form above and will be asked to submit a PDF of the complete paper (with graphics and/or other supporting materials) by February 1.

Please email AMS submissions or inquiries to Janice Dickensheets: janice.dickensheets@unco.edu

Please email SEM submissions or inquiries to Brian Casey: Brian.Casey@unco.edu

We are pleased to also announce that Mark Rabideau of UC Denver will be our keynote speaker this year.

Mark Rabideau is a frequent speaker on how fostering individual and collective creativity can help address the world’s most pressing problems, delivering talks at Juilliard, Curtis, Yale, and the American University in Cairo – where he was named Distinguished Visiting Researcher – and teaching courses and workshops in the United States, Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

The breadth of Mark’s creative spirit is evidenced by the transdisciplinary work he has produced, including the GRAMMY-winning album STILLPOINT (New Amsterdam Records), The Global Musician Workshop, a partnership with Silkroad, Live from Smoke, a radio show from NYC’s upper-westside, Worlds End, an original work with the American Repertory Ballet, and the made-for-PBS documentaries Awadagin Pratt: Black in America (winner of Audience Choice for Best Documentary, Sedona International Film Festival). UNQUIET, Mark’s current record project explores the interior experience of those struggling with bipolar disorder.

He is the author of Creating the Artist Revolutionary (Rowman & Littlefield, 2018) – recipient of the 2018 Society for Arts Entrepreneurship Educators’ Innovative Arts Entrepreneurship Pedagogy Award – and is senior editor of Emerging Fields in Music (Routledge Publishing).

Mark was named to The National Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (2024) and The Recording Arts Academy (2023) and is Past-President of the College Music Society (2021-2023).

Mark serves as Senior Associate Dean and Professor of Music within the College of Arts & Media at the University of Colorado Denver and Affiliate Faculty within the Center for Bioethics and Humanities at the University of Colorado Anschutz Medical Campus.

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Conference Location

The conference will be held in Skinner Library & Frasier Hall, 1710 9th Ave.  Parking should be available on the sidewalks on 9th and 10th Avenue.  Paid parking is available on 10th Street (City) and in the parking lot on 10th Avenue and 17th street.  There is an App you need to download to pay for parking in the parking lot and signs are there to provide instruction.

The conference hotel will be the DoubleTree by Hilton Greeley at Lincoln Park.  I do not yet have any information regarding conference rates so watch for more information in the near future.

The nearest international airport is Denver International Airport approximate 1 hour south of Greeley.  There are no public transportation options from the airport to Greeley but Uber and Lyft are both available.  I will be providing contact information to everyone who is participating in or attending the conference a couple of months before so that you can coordinate airport arrivals if you wish in order to share ride costs.

As I have more details, I will share them all with you.  Please do not hesitate to reach out to Janice Dickensheets (janice.dickensheets@unco.edu)

Planning Committee:

Janice Dickensheets (µÛÍõ»áËù):  janice.dickensheets@unco.edu

Reiner Krämer (µÛÍõ»áËù):  reiner.kramer@unco.edu

Brian Casey (µÛÍõ»áËù):  brian.casey@unco.edu

John Muniz (President, SMT, University of  Arizona):  johnmuniz@arizona.edu

Public Service Announcement:  µÛÍõ»áËù will also be hosting the 3rd International Symposium on Musical Topics and Topic Theory May 27-29, 2027.  For more information on the call for papers, please visit the website.