The panel proposes to award the 2026 RMA Monograph Prize to Gurminder Kaur Bhogal for Sikh Kirtan and Its Journeys: Instruments, Theories, Technologies. We were unanimous in praising the book's achievements, most obviously in terms...

We are delighted to announce the winner of an RMA 150th Anniversary Fellowship in 2026 - Katalin Koltai, for her project "Sustainable New Lutherie: Enhanced Polyphonic Expressivity through Non-Intrusive Guitar Augmentation". Warmest congratulations...

Report written by Ana Beatriz Ferreira (Cardiff University) and Eleonora Savvidou (Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama). The conference Chamber Music: Synergies through Time, Places and Spaces took place...

Call for Contributions 31st October 2026, University of Huddersfield Adapting Sound will focus on discourse around the role of the soundtrack in film, television, and game adaptations, promoting discussion of the...

By Bea Hebron Hosted by City St George’s, University of London, on the 18th of June 2026, this RMA Study Day offered ‘Music as Life Practice’ as a thematic anchor...

The RMA Tippett Medal for 2024 is awarded to Ed Cooper for his piece As the space functions without me for vocal soloists, spatialised choir, and digital audio, written for Leodis Consort....

The Royal Musical Association 150th Anniversary Fellowships (for Early Career Researchers) Given the extremely challenging environment facing Early Career Researchers, the RMA has established a programme of single-year, non-renewal postdoctoral...

As part of our series of interviews with RMA prize winners, our student representative, Günseli Naz Ferel interviewed Dr Katalin Koltai, the 2024 RMA Practice Research Prize winner. In this...

Congratulations to Nicholas A. Walters (University of Cambridge), who has been awarded this year’s RMA/Musici Trust Prize. This prize is awarded annually for a paper on music before 1600 at...

RMA Members have long received a physical copy of the latest issue of Journal of the Royal Musical Association, released twice yearly. Owing to new contractual arrangements with our publisher, Cambridge...

The British Forum for Ethnomusicology (BFE) and Royal Musical Association (RMA) Research Students’ Conference will be hosted by the University of Oxford on Wednesday 6 – Friday 8 January 2027....

The RNCM is a leading international conservatoire and live music venue in the heart of Manchester

Nominations are invited by 15 June 2026.

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Natasha Loges has been appointed as a new Editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, to work alongside the lead Editor, Prof....

Deadline 16 June 2026

Deadline 16 June 2026

We are delighted to announce that Prof. Natasha Loges has been appointed as a new Editor of the Journal of the Royal Musical Association, to work alongside the lead Editor, Prof....

The RMA has THREE openings for Ordinary Members of Council and ONE for Vice-President, tenure beginning in January 2027 for three and five years, respectively. If you would like to...

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