Conference Agenda
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Session Overview |
| Date: Sunday, 28/June/2026 | |
| 1:00pm - 4:00pm |
IAML Board Meeting 1 Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Rupert Ridgewell |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
Coffee break Location: Foyer |
| 5:30pm - 6:30pm |
IAML Board welcomes first time attendees Location: CR2 Hall |
| 7:00pm - 10:00pm |
Opening Ceremony Location: Foyer |
| Date: Monday, 29/June/2026 | |||||
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
Plenary Session Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break Location: Foyer |
Coffee corner for first time attendees Location: Foyer |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PRESENTATIONS_01: A broad range of British musical legacy: Benjamin Britten, May Henrietta Mukle and The Beatles Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Barbara Schwarz-Raminger Presented by the Bibliography Section Britten’s Winter Words and the 1950s: Archival Insights from The Britten Pears Arts in Aldeburgh, UK London, United Kingdom 11:30am - 12:00pm Tracing Concert "Herstory": Musical Ephemera and the search for May Henrietta Mukle in the Wigmore Hall Archive Bangor University, United Kingdom 12:00pm - 12:30pm Dear Beatle People: Uncovering The Beatles Monthly Magazine as a Key Tool for Understanding the Beatles’ Legacy University of Liverpool, United Kingdom |
PRESENTATIONS_02: Making, using, collecting and disseminating sound recordings Location: Museum Hall Chair: Ferenc János Szabó Presented by the Audio-Visual Materials Section Creative Storytelling and Multimedia Applications in Musicological Archival Research: Microhistories of the State Conservatory of Thessaloniki Ministry of Education, Greece 11:30am - 12:00pm Inclusionary discovery and the ‘hungry listening’ of music streaming platforms University of Leeds, United Kingdom 12:00pm - 12:30pm Maria Luiza Kfouri and the website “Discos do Brasil”: collecting, memory, and musical dissemination Espirito Santo College of Music, Brazil |
PRESENTATIONS_03: Cataloguing and AI tools Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections The AI for Cultural Heritage Hub (ArCH): unlocking inaccessible data Cambridge University Library, United Kingdom 11:30am - 12:00pm Cataloging Self-Published and AI-Created Music 1: Elizabeth City State University, United States of America; 2: Duke University 12:00pm - 12:30pm Indigenous music rights, public cultural sharing and libraries Auckland Univeristy of Technology, New Zealand |
WORKING MEETINGS_01 Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Houman Behzadi Committee Members
Advocacy Committee
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WORKING MEETINGS_02 Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Jim Cassaro (CLOSED SESSION) Fontes Editorial Board
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch break |
PRESENTATIONS_04: Cultivating a Legacy: The Power of Planned Giving for IAML Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Jim Cassaro (REGISTRATION REQUIRED) Cultivating a Legacy: The Power of Planned Giving for IAML University of Pittsburgh, United States of America |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PRESENTATIONS_05: Perspectives on AI panel Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: M. Nathalie Hristov Presented by the Service and Training Section Perspectives Across Core Workflows using AI: A Panel Session with short presentations University of Tennessee, United States of America |
PRESENTATIONS_06: Title TBC Location: Museum Hall Chair: Aris Bazmadelis Presented by the Archives and Music Documentation Section
How to Deal with a Composer’s Anniversary in an Archive: The Case of Manuel de Falla’s 150th (1876–2026) Fundación Archivo Manuel de Falla, Spain 2:30pm - 3:00pm Archive and reconstruction of the past: Musical life of the Austrian Military Frontier Austrian Academy of Sciences Vienna ACDH Department of Musicology 3:00pm - 3:30pm Sikeliotis-Tassos: Rebetiko and the quest for Greekness (Hellenikotita) Professor Emerita for Musical Iconography, Teloglion Foundation of Arts Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
PRESENTATIONS_07: Library and archival collections Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Constructing Armenian Musical Identity through Library and Archival Collections DEREE-THE AMERICAN COLLEGE OF GREECE, Greece 2:30pm - 3:00pm Collection Building Journey in Royal Opera House Muscat Music Library Royal Opera House Muscat, Oman 3:00pm - 3:30pm Music collections in the Literary Archive of the Slovak National Library Slovak National Library, Slovak Republic |
PRESENTATIONS_08: Across salons, archives, and sanctuaries: tracing musical lives and legacies Location: CR1 Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Josephine Baroni-Cavalcabò's Salons in Lviv and Vienna: Networking on behalf of Schubert and Mozart. Archiv der Erzdiözese Salzburg, Austria 2:30pm - 3:00pm Researching and Archiving: on Letters from a Musical Family in Pyongyang Ewha Womans University, Korea, Republic of (South Korea) 3:00pm - 3:30pm From the opera stage to the church. Castrati arias in the collection of Cistercians in Silesia University of Warsaw, Poland |
WORKING MEETINGS_03: Constitution committee meeting Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Barbara Wiermann (CLOSED SESSION) |
| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
PRESENTATIONS_09: Audience development in music Libraries Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Niels Mark Presented by the Public libraries Section The Music Floor, connecting collections 1: Royal Conservatory, Netherlands, The; 2: Collections Netherlands Music Institute 4:30pm - 5:00pm Resonance: Music appreciation for the D/deaf and hard of hearing 1: Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri" of The Friends of Music Society; 2: liminal 5:00pm - 5:30pm Beyond the shelves… service and human relationships. Communication, a tool that bridges needs and human identities. Experiences from the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” of the Friends of Music Society. Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” - The Friends of Music Society, Greece |
PRESENTATIONS_10: Digital tools and collecting Location: Museum Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Digital Scores, Outreach, and Accent Walls: Insights into Music Students’ Perspectives of the University of Toronto Music Library University of Toronto, Canada 4:30pm - 5:00pm Preserving Composers’ Process in the Digital Age 1: Library of Congress, United States of America; 2: University of Maryland, United States of America 5:00pm - 5:30pm From Fragmentation to Collaboration: A Data-Driven Approach to Music E-Resource Purchasing Agreements and Licensing in Tennessee University of Tennessee, United States of America |
PRESENTATIONS_11: African sounds and intangible musical heritage in Brazil Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections
Beyond digital return at the International Library of African Music (ILAM): Traditional African sounds and archival relations of power and knowledge Rhodes University, South Africa 4:30pm - 5:00pm Stratégies de revalorisation des instruments de musique traditionnels africains Institut Supérieur du CInéma, de l'Audiovisuel et de la Musique (ISCAM), Burkina Faso 5:00pm - 5:30pm The Brazilian Choro Heritage Database: Digital Resources as Safeguarding Action on Intangible Cultural Heritage Faculdade de Música do Espírito Santo (FAMES), Brazil |
PRESENTATIONS_12: Roles of music libraries and librarians Location: CR1 Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections From Support to Co-Creation: The Role of Librarians in the Production of Knowledge Synthesis in Music Université Laval, Canada 4:30pm - 5:00pm The search for musical sources with open access resources and the role of music libraries 'Paganini' Conservatory of music, Genoa, Italy 5:00pm - 5:30pm Concerts from the Library of Congress at 100: A Study in Sustainable Philanthropy and Engagement Library of Congress, United States of America |
WORKING MEETINGS_04 Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Ruprecht Langer National Libraries Study Group
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Cultural Programme |
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| Date: Tuesday, 30/June/2026 | |||||
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PRESENTATIONS_13: Metadata in context: film music in in the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Werkverzeichnis Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Chris Holden Presented by the Cataloguing and metadata Section Metadata in Context: Film Music in in the Erich Wolfgang Korngold Werkverzeichnis Presentations of the Forum Korngold Collections in the United States and Europe: Limitations of and Potential for Existing Metadata Editing Film Music: Harnessing Metadata in Korngold’s The Adventures of Robin Hood Capturing, Linking, and Presenting Metadata from the Film Scores of Erich Wolfgang Korngold |
PRESENTATIONS_14: AI research tools Location: Museum Hall Chair: M. Nathalie Hristov Presented by the Service and training Section Between Fear and Function: AI, Access, and Everyday Practice 1: Seoul National University, South Korea; 2: Hochschule für Musik und Theater, Munich 9:30am - 10:00am Tracing Music Aesthetic Vocabulary Evolution using AI Models: A Computational Study of the National Taiwan Symphony Orchestra Archive 1: Department of Music, National Taiwan University of Arts, Taiwan; 2: Digital Archive Center for Music, National Taiwan Normal University, Taiwan 10:00am - 10:30am Co-writing with AI: insight or imitation? "Gheorghe Dima" National Music Academy, Romania |
PRESENTATIONS_15: Imprints of music Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Gathering sources in libraries and archives: Encyclopaedia of Tablature University of Zagreb Academy of Music, Croatia 9:30am - 10:00am Investigating the Music Dealer’s Stamp Furman University, United States of America 10:00am - 10:30am Playing with Pleyel: enriching and remediating existing online collections University of Iowa, United States of America |
WORKING MEETINGS_05: Forum of National Representative Location: CR1 Hall (CLOSED SESSION) |
WORKSHOP_01 Location: CR2 Hall RISM Workshop 1
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break- Poster Session 1 Location: Foyer Mid-Career Mentoring in a New Era: The Evolving Dynamics of Post-Pandemic Mentorship 1: New York University, USA; 2: University of Minnesota, USA The Musical Heritage of the Province of Frosinone Conservatorio di Musica "L. Refice" - Frosinone, Italy An Evening with ILLIAC II (1965): Archiving the “Computer-as-Performer” in Early Human–Machine Ensembles National Taiwan Normal University, Department of Music "Artistic Research on Musical Heritage": a new Ph. D. course in Italy 1: Conservatorio di musica 'A. Scontrino', Trapani; 2: Conservatorio di musica 'L Boccherini', Lucca; 3: Conservatorio di musica 'A. Steffani', Castelfranco Veneto Artificial Intelligence in the Academic Life of Students in Higher Music Education in Spain: Uses, Habits and Perspectives 1: Escola Superior de Música de Catalunya (ESMUC); 2: Musikene, Centro Superior de Música del País Vasco Concert criticism as a source for research on concert life in Prague in the first half of the 20th century. The potential of the bibliographic database of the Musicological library (IAH CAS) Institute of Art History, Czech Republic The Department of Music of the Austrian National Library and its Founders' Ideological Program Austrian National Library, Austria Cataloguing Operatic Works and Film Music in the Case of Riccardo Zandonai: Methodological Perspectives University of Bologna, Italy Giampaolo Coral’s archival collection: bridging the gap between sources and music training in HME Free University of Bozen-Bolzano, Italy Cataloging the pieces of Nikos Xanthoulis and other modern composers for a seven string ancient greek lyre Democritus University of Thrace, Greece Snakes in the Codex. Watermarks in Medieval Music Manuscripts Austrian Academy of Sciences, Institute for Medieval Research Opera beyond the stage: Private and semi-public musical consumption in 19th Century Lleida through the Magí Pontí i Ferrer musical collection of the Cathedral Chapter Archive of Lleida. Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Preserving a Private Sound Heritage: New Approaches to the 78-rpm Record Collection of Gabriele d’Annunzio Conservatorio "G. Nicolini" Piacenza, Italy |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PRESENTATIONS_16: Fantastic Watermarks and Where to Find Them: Research, Portals and Collections Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Ruprecht Langer Presented by the Research Libraries Section Fantastic Watermarks and Where to Find Them: Research, Portals and Collections Presentations of the Forum From Paper to Knowledge: Watermarks in the Music Sources of the Bavarian State Library The Watermark Portal Bernstein – Memory of Paper FAIR Watermarks. An inter-institutional research data community for thermography data |
PRESENTATIONS_17: Music librarianship: snapshots past and present Location: Museum Hall Chair: Carla Williams Presented by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section
US Music Librarianship Enters the International Arena: The Discipline Before and After World War II Sibley Music Library, Eastman, University of Rochester, United States of America 11:30am - 12:00pm The Accidental Tech Librarian : Adapting Music Librarianship Skills to Project Management for the New IAML Website (and the Many Lessons Learned!) 1: Baruch College, City University of New York, United States of America; 2: Berlin University of the Arts 12:00pm - 12:30pm Music Librarianship and IAML Institutions: An International Questionnaire 1: University of Colorado Boulder, Boulder, Colorado, United States of America; 2: Ohio University, Athens, Ohio, United States of America; 3: Mozarteum University, Salzburg, Austria |
PRESENTATIONS_18: Digitization and digital humanities Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections The digitization of musical heritage in Italy: current situation and future prospects. Conservatorio di Musica di Como, Italy 11:30am - 12:00pm The Yannis Constantinidis personal archive: a digitization and public access initiative 1: National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 2: Athens Music School, Greece 12:00pm - 12:30pm Forgotten Voices in Norwegian Musical Heritage: Digital Infrastructure for the Music Archive of the Future 1: University Library of Bergen, Norway; 2: Centre for Grieg Research, University of Bergen, Norway |
WORKING MEETINGS_06: Cataloguing and metadata Section Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Chris Holden |
WORKING MEETINGS_07: Public Libraries Section meeting Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Niels Mark |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch break |
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| 2:00pm - 3:30pm |
PRESENTATIONS_19: Documenting Performance Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Nienke de Boer Presented by the Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Section Section Elections Chasing the right version, reading between the lines Theater und Philharmonie Essen, Germany 2:30pm - 3:00pm The Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra: Archival and Discographic Perspectives Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovak Republic 3:00pm - 3:30pm Fifty Years of Repertoire in the European Union Youth Orchestra: A Data-Driven Analysis of Programming, Identity, and Cultural Diplomacy 1: University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria; 2: mdw - University for Music and Performing Arts Vienna |
PRESENTATIONS_20: Music collection catalogues: Paths and developments in Portugal and Versailles Location: Museum Hall Chair: Barbara Schwarz-Raminger Presented by the Bibliography Section Networks of Musical Circulation and the Routes of Foreign Printed Music into Portugal up to the End of the Ancien Régime Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal 2:30pm - 3:00pm WE DID IT AGAIN!: CATALOGUING 18000 MUSICAL MANUSCRIPTS AT THE NATIONAL LIBRARY OF PORTUGAL 1: National Library of Portugal, Portugal; 2: Centre for Music Studies - FCSH NOVA University 3:00pm - 3:30pm The migration of the bibliographic database of the Centre de musique baroque de Versailles: Methods, challenges, and perspectives Centre de musique baroque de Versailles - CMBV, France |
PRESENTATIONS_21: Coding Byzantine notation and non-roman scripts Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections A long-awaited desideratum: MEI Encoding of Byzantine Neumes (Chrysanthine notation) 1: CESEM-IN2PAST Universidade Nova de Lisboa, Portugal; 2: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; 3: Greek RISM office; 4: McGill University 2:30pm - 3:00pm Toward Better Access. AI and the Cataloguing Evolution of non-Roman Scripts Materials - Problems, Practices and Prospects 1: Ewha Womans University, South Korea; 2: Harvard University, United States of America; 3: National Library of the Czech Republic; 4: University of Warsaw, Poland; 5: Bayerische Staatsbibliothek, Germany 3:00pm - 3:30pm Digital reunification of separated archival music documents through Muscat, RISM's central cataloging program for musical sources. 1: Music Library of Greece "Lilian Voudouri", Greece; 2: Greek RISM Office |
WORKING MEETINGS_08: Publications committee Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Stefan Engl (CLOSED SESSION) |
WORKSHOP_02 Location: CR2 Hall RISM Workshop 2
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee break- Poster Session 1 continued Location: Foyer |
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| 4:00pm - 5:30pm |
General Assembly 1 Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Rupert Ridgewell |
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| 8:00pm - 10:00pm |
Cultural Programme |
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| Date: Wednesday, 01/July/2026 | |||||
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
TBC: TBC Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall |
PRESENTATIONS_22: Jazz and popular music in a historical context Location: Museum Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Jazz, Cultural Policy and Media in the Socialist Republic of Macedonia (1944–1970): A Documentary and Musicological Reassessment National and University Library “St. Clement of Ohrid” in Skopje, North Macedonia, Republic of 9:30am - 10:00am Jazz, rock and pop music in the socialist library and currently in Slovakia Comenius University, Slovak Republic 10:00am - 10:30am Hemerographic Research and the Consolidation of Conjuntos Regionais in Radio-Era Brazil FAMES (Faculdade de Música do Espírito Santo), Brazil |
PRESENTATIONS_23: Methods for the future: digital creativity, archival reconstruction, and musical heritage mapping Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Sketch Studies of AI-Driven Compositional Processes: New Archives, New Analytical Methods Université de Strasbourg, France 9:30am - 10:00am Reconstructing the Hidden Heritage: The Italian Opera by Women Composers Database Conservatorio di musica "G. Nicolini" di Piacenza, Italy 10:00am - 10:30am Musica Carmelitana. Mapping the Musical Culture of the Carmelites Jagiellonian University, Poland |
WORKING MEETINGS_09: Broadcasting and Orchestra Libraries Section meeting Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Nienke de Boer |
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| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break- BOL coffee corner meeting Location: Foyer |
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| 11:00am - 12:30pm |
PRESENTATIONS_24 Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Carla Williams Presented by the Libraries in Music Teaching Institutions Section Best Practices for Electronic Score Licensing in Music Libraries: Project Group Report 1: McGill University; 2: Ohio University; 3: University of Colorado; 4: Mozarteum University |
PRESENTATIONS_25: Digital collections Location: Museum Hall Chair: Eva Neumayr Presented by the Research Libraries Section Recent steps forward in Non-Print Legal Deposit music collecting in the UK British Library, United Kingdom 11:30am - 12:00pm Digital Legal Deposit and Long-Term Preservation. A technical overview of the German National Library’s workflow German National Library, Germany 12:00pm - 12:30pm NoMus Digital Archive and Sylvano Bussotti NoMus, Italy |
PRESENTATIONS_26: Perspectives on Thessaloniki’s multicultural and musical heritage Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Contributions to the Multicultural History of Thessaloniki: Insights from the Library of the Faculty of Music University of Arts in Belgrade, Faculty of Music, Serbia 11:30am - 12:00pm Dimitri Mitropoulos and James Dixon: an unlikely pair of conductors in the American Midwest University of Iowa, United States of America 12:00pm - 12:30pm Xenakis in Zeeland ZB Library of Zeeland, Netherlands, The |
WORKING MEETINGS_10: RILM Committee Members and Collaborators Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Tina Frühauf |
WORKING MEETINGS_11: Development Committee Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Jim Cassaro (CLOSED SESSION) |
| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch break |
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| 2:00pm - 6:00pm |
Excursions |
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| 8:00pm - 11:00pm |
RILM Reception RSVP required |
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| Date: Thursday, 02/July/2026 | ||||||
| 9:00am - 10:30am |
PRESENTATIONS_27 Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Sabina Benelli Presented by the Archives and Music Documentation Centres Section
Towards a Conceptual Model for Music Theatre Preservation in Archives Faculdade de Ciências Sociais e Humanas – NOVA FCSH, Portugal; CESEM - Centre for Music Studies 9:30am - 10:00am From standing alone to standing together: Integrating the Manolis Kalomiris Archive into the Greek Music Archive of the Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” and its impact Music Library of Greece “Lilian Voudouri” The Friends of Music Society, Greece 10:00am - 10:30am E. Czeppe Music Archive: Methodological Challenges in Times of Institutional Scarcity University for Continuing Education Krems, Austria |
PRESENTATIONS_28: Perspectives on score description and discoverability Location: Museum Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Annotated Violin Scores in Conservatory Libraries: Description, Metadata, and Performance Evidence 1: University of Cincinnati, United States of America; 2: University of Toronto, Canada 9:30am - 10:00am Enhancing the Findability of Musical Scores: Extracting Resources from the "Japanese Classical Books" Category RIKEN, Japan 10:00am - 10:30am Cataloging Raven Chacon University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign, United States of America |
PRESENTATIONS_29: Concerts, archives and connections Location: Library Hall Performativity of the archives. Case study the Exhibition “Musicians of the 20th century in Thessaloniki” co-organized by the Institute of Greek Music Heritage and the Thessaloniki Concert Hall (2026) 1: Ionian University, Greece; 2: Institute of Greek Music Heritage, Greece 9:30am - 10:00am The Conservatoires of Bruxelles and Αθήνα 1: Royal Museums of Art and History, Belgium; 2: Athens Conservatoire 10:00am - 10:30am Music through the archives and collections of the General State Archives General State Archives-Central Service, Greece |
PRESENTATIONS_30: Digital Libraries for Musicology Location: CR1 Hall |
WORKING MEETINGS_12 Location: CR2 Hall RISM International Consortium (working meeting)
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WORKING MEETINGS_13: Online Events Committee Location: CR3 Hall Chair: Maria Teresa Delgado-Sánchez Chair: Houman Behzadi |
| 10:30am - 11:00am |
Coffee break - Poster Session 2 Location: Foyer The Mystery of the Paper Piano: an unexpected relic of ‘Sisi’ in the National Library of Scotland National Library of Scotland, United Kingdom Phrase Rhythmic Strategies and Temporal Design in Brahms’s Late Piano Works 1: the hebrew university of jerusalem, Israel; 2: Jack, Joseph and Morton Mandel School for Advanced Studies in the Humanities Catalogues, analysis, and companions: integrating Elgar's Themes University of Oxford, United Kingdom The life and career of South African concert pianist Steven De Groote. Stellenbosch University, South Africa The Arfanis Archive-Collection at Athens Conservatoire Athens Conservatoire, Greece The Giani-Luporini Personal Collection: A New Perspective on Archives by Music Composers of the Second Half of the 20th Century Conservatorio statale di musica "L. Boccherini", Italy Recovering Marie Cécile Galos: Archival pathways into the life and reception of the obscure composer behind the celebrated nocturne "Le Lac de Côme" Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Spain Documenting Musical Institutions: City Council Minutes and Policies of Musical Memory in São Paulo (1949) 1: UNESP, Brazil; 2: FAPESP Applying a/r/tography: Community, Creation, Performance - Contemporary Music for Flute Solo from Thessaloniki Thessaloniki Aristotle University, Greece Le potentiel marketing des archives en tant que « lieux de mémoire » : l’exemple du Conservatoire Rachmaninoff de Paris Strasbourg University, France Repatriation of Sound: Challenges, opportunities, and educational prospects in the digital era Independent researcher Re-discovering the unfinished: the uncompleted works by Michele Puccini Conservatorio Luigi Boccherini - Lucca, Italy Franco Margola: Uncovering the Hidden Legacy of Unpublished Works and New Cataloguing Insights. CONSERVATORIO DI MUSICA LUCA MARENZIO BRESCIA, Italy |
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PRESENTATIONS_31: RILM General session Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Tina Frühauf RILM General Session: RILM at 60 Presentations of the Forum RILM and IAML: 60 years of friendship RILM in 2026 RILM: A vision for the future |
PRESENTATIONS_32: Source materials in Greece Location: Museum Hall Chair: Stephanie Merakos Presented by the Forum of Sections Three major music archives of the National Library of Greece as sources for the research of 19th- and early 20th-century music history National Library of Greece, Greece 11:30am - 12:00pm Music Archive of the Hellenic Army Band of Athens: organization and operation Hellenic Army Band of Athens / Music Archive, Greece 12:00pm - 12:30pm Τhe Historical Archive of Neo-Hellenic Music «Spyros Motsenigos»: Exploring the Collection and Musical Score Documentation at the National Library of Greece (NLG) National Library of Greece, Greece |
PRESENTATIONS_33: Digital sources: models and linking Location: Library Hall Linking and Combining Digital Music Sources in Digital Archives: The CollabScore approach 1: Lab. Cedric, Cnam, France; 2: Lab. IRISA, Univ. de Rennes; 3: Bibliothèque nationale de France (BnF); 4: Lab. Cristal,Univ. de Lille; 5: Lab. IReMus, Sorbonne-Université; 6: Fondation Royaumont 11:30am - 12:00pm Linking Sources, Mapping Networks: Digitizing the Legacy of Maffeo Zanon at Casa Ricordi 1: Conservatorio Nicolini di Piacenza; 2: Archivio Storico Ricordi 12:00pm - 12:30pm From Sources to Infrastructures: Digital Models for Musical Heritage and the Lodovico Media Library 1: Conservatorio di musica "Giovan Battista Martini" di Bologna, Italy; 2: Università degli studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia, Italy |
PRESENTATIONS_34: DLfM own programme Location: CR1 Hall |
WORKING MEETINGS_14: Development, Advocacy, Membership, Outreach joint meeting Location: CR2 Hall (CLOSED SESSION) |
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| 12:30pm - 2:00pm |
Lunch break |
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PRESENTATIONS_35: RISM Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Balázs Mikusi RISM General Session Presentations of the Forum forthcoming forthcoming forthcoming forthcoming |
PRESENTATIONS_36: Fragile histories Location: Museum Hall Chair: Myrto Economides Presented by the Forum of Sections Cypriot Music: A Critical Overview of Theses and Academic Research in Greek Universities Pafos Municipality, Cyprus 2:30pm - 3:00pm Bridging Musical Archives: Two Ottoman Greek’s Collections as part of the Corpus Musicae Ottomanicae Project University of Ioannina, Greece 3:00pm - 3:30pm Finale’s Coda: Evidence from Greece on Digital Obsolescence and Vendor Lock-in following the Finale Discontinuation Department of Music Studies, National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece |
PRESENTATIONS_37: Intersections of learning, policy, and place Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections “The Lost Manuscript” and “Authorization Required”: Escape Rooms as Music Library Orientation University of Toronto, Canada 2:30pm - 3:00pm Recitals in Your IR: Managing Copyright for Performance Media in U.S. Institutional Repositories 1: University of Miami, United States of America; 2: Emory University, United States of America; 3: The University of Alabama at Birmingham, United States of America 3:00pm - 3:30pm A Dialogue on Canadian Music in the Archives University of Toronto Music Library, Canada |
PRESENTATIONS_38: DLfM own programme Location: CR1 Hall |
WORKING MEETINGS_15: Copyright Committee meeting Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Phillippa McKeown-Green |
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| 3:30pm - 4:00pm |
Coffee break - Poster Session 2 continued Location: Foyer |
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PRESENTATIONS_39 Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Benjamin Knysak RIPM General Session Presentations of the Forum RIPM in 2026 To be determined To be determined |
PRESENTATIONS_40: Round table: Manuscripts of the Eastern Christian Chant traditions Location: Museum Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Manuscripts of the Eastern Christian Chant Traditions: Catalogues, Metadata, Research tools. On the state of the art and future projects 1: Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece; 2: Universita di Padova, Italy; 3: National Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece; 4: Patriarchal University Ecclesiastical Academy of Crete, Greece; 5: University of Macedonia, Thessaloniki, Greece; 6: Romanian Academy Library, Bucharest, Romania; 7: Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music; 8: Centre for Music Studies, New University of Lisbon; 9: University of Palermo, Italy; 10: Ionian University, Corfu, Greece |
PRESENTATIONS_41: Musical sources and their discoverability Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Challenges of Discography in the 21st Century Institute for Musicology, ELTE RCH; Ferenc Liszt Academy of Music, Hungary 4:30pm - 5:00pm Mapping a Forgotten Soundscape: The First Census of Wind-Band Manuscripts in the Province of Messina Conservatorio di musica "Giovan Battista Martini" di Bologna, Italy / Soprintendenza per i Beni Culturali e Ambientali di Messina, Italy / Biblioteca comunale Artemisia di Castroreale (ME), Italy / Biblioteca comunale Gaetano Borghese di Novara di Sicilia (ME), Italy 5:00pm - 5:30pm Unlocking the Vault: Enhancing Special Collection Discoverability at the Cook Music Library Indiana University Bloomington Cook Music Library, United States of America |
PRESENTATIONS_42: DLfM own programme Location: CR1 Hall |
WORKING MEETINGS_16: Libraries in Music Institutions Section and E-score licensing project group joint meeting Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Carla Williams Chair: Houman Behzadi LIMTI and E-Score Licensing Project Group meetings
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WORKING MEETINGS_17 Location: CR3 Hall Chair: Balázs Mikusi RISM Coordinating Committee (working meeting)
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Cultural Programme |
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| Date: Friday, 03/July/2026 | |||||
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PRESENTATIONS_43: Semantic infrastructures for digital musicology Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Linked RISM: 91 million triples and growing RISM Digital Center, Switzerland 9:30am - 10:00am Beyond Tables: Knowledge Graphs as Semantic Backbone of Digital Music Editions 1: Austrian National Library; 2: Vienna University of Technology, Austria 10:00am - 10:30am musiconn.performance - New developments and perspectives SLUB Dresden, Germany |
PRESENTATIONS_44: Focus on IAML Location: Museum Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Croatian Association of Music Libraries, Archives and Documentation Centres (HUMKAD): History, Activities, and Projects University of Zagreb, Academy of music, Croatia 9:30am - 10:00am „Biblioteka Muzyczna. Music Library” - from Typescript to Born-Digital. The History of the Periodical of the Music Libraries Section of the Polish Librarians’ Association – the Polish National Branch of IAML 1: The Karol Szymanowski Academy of Music Library in Katowice; 2: Jagiellonian University, Poland 10:00am - 10:30am Exploring the Russian and Soviet Networks of Vladimir Fedorov State Institute for Art Studies, Russian Federation |
PRESENTATIONS_45: Byzantine sources Location: Library Hall Chair: Arsinoi Ioannidou Presented by the Forum of Sections Archival and Documentary Sources for Byzantine Chant among the Albanians (Arbëreshë) of Sicily: Manuscripts, Transcriptions, and Paraliturgical Repertoires between East and West Università di Palermo, Dip. di Scienze Umanistiche, Biblioteca di Musica, Italy 9:30am - 10:00am Digitization Programmes of Manuscripts of the Chanting Art in Cyprus and at the Monastery of Pantokratoros, Mount Athos A Brief Overview Theological School of Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece 10:00am - 10:30am Great Byzantine Composers of the Kalophonic Era Chanting the Nativity of Christ. Sources, editorial challenges, and artistic approaches to the enneade ‘Bethleem hetoimazou’ 1: Aristotle University Thessaloniki, Greece; 2: Ukrainian National Tchakovsky Academy of Music, Kyiv |
WORKING MEETINGS_18: Forum of Sections Location: CR1 Hall Chair: Anna Pensaert |
WORKING MEETINGS_19: RIdIM Council meeting Location: CR2 Hall |
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Coffee break Location: Foyer |
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PRESENTATIONS_46: National AV heritage(s) and international relations Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Ferenc János Szabó Presented by the Audio-Visual Materials Section Sound Recordings of Prisoners-of-War from Serbia in German Camps (1915–1918): Revisiting Approaches of Berlin and Serbian Comparative Musicologies Institute of Musicology SASA, Serbia 11:30am - 12:00pm The Fate of the Archive of the Acoustic Laboratory of the Moscow Conservatory as a Reflection of the Role of Musical Acoustics in Russian Musicology Université de Strasbourg, France 12:00pm - 12:30pm Digital Collection of the Latvian Song and Dance Celebration: A Year of Technological Challenges. National Library of Latvia, Latvia |
PRESENTATIONS_47: Genre, metadata, and the evolving bibliographic Record Location: Museum Hall Chair: Chris Holden Presented by the Cataloguing and metadata Section Reclaiming the Record: Community-Centered Music Metadata for Cultural Restoration Indiana University, United States of America 11:30am - 12:00pm Navigating Change and Tension in the Bibliographic Record Genre Furman University, United States of America 12:00pm - 12:30pm Preliminary Results and Future Perspectives in Developing a Faceted Thesaurus of Musical Genres and Forms: supporting Integrated Research in Library Catalogues and Linked Data Environments Conservatory of music Agostino Steffani - Castelfranco Veneto, Italy |
PRESENTATIONS_48: Panel: DEUMM Online Location: Library Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Contextualizing Modern Global Music Encyclopedia: DEUMM Online 1: University of Salento / DEUMM General Co-Editor; 2: Hochschule Luzern / DEUMM General Co-Editor; 3: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki; 4: Österreichische Akademie der Wissenschaften, Wien; 5: Bologna University - Ravenna Campus; 6: University of Padova – Levi Foundation; 7: Athens Conservatoire; 8: Aristotle University of Thessaloniki |
WORKING MEETINGS_20 Location: CR1 Hall (IAML Representatives_CLOSED SESSIONS) RISM Commission Mixte (working meeting)
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WORKING MEETINGS_21: RILM Commission Mixte Location: CR2 Hall Chair: Tina Frühauf (IAML Representatives_CLOSED SESSIONS) |
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Lunch break |
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PRESENTATIONS_49: South Africa: colonial and post-colonial Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Postcolonial Perspectives in Music Collections: Showcasing musical Heritage of the former Dutch East Indies The Hague City Archives/Netherlands Music Institute, Netherlands, The 2:30pm - 3:00pm Tracing South Africa’s Earliest Music Periodical and the Sounds of Colonial Life in the 1850s University of Cape Town, South Africa |
PRESENTATIONS_50: Documenting popular music: from information models to publishing histories Location: Museum Hall Presented by the Forum of Sections Music information representation: categories to expand the narrative of popular music cultural heritage archives 1: Federal University of Santa Catarina, Brazil; 2: Federal University of Pelotas 2:30pm - 3:00pm Beyond Oblivion: exploring the Italian popular music publishing market and cataloguing Italy’s 20th-Century entertainment music editions 1: BIblioteca nazionale centrale di Firenze, Italy; 2: Ufficio Ricerca Fondi Musicali (URFM) - Milan Conservatory, Italy |
PRESENTATIONS_51: Polish singing and Greek resources Location: Library Hall Chair: Stella Kourmpana Presented by the Forum of Sections Greater Poland Singing Traditions – Reflections on the Musical Materials of the St. Cecilia Singing Society in Połajewo University Library in Poznan, Poland 2:30pm - 3:00pm Manuscripts by Greek Composers in The Oliver Neighbour collection at the British Library, MS Mus. 1810 British Library, United Kingdom |
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Coffee break Location: Foyer |
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General Assembly 2 Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Rupert Ridgewell |
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Closing Session Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Rupert Ridgewell |
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Board Meeting 2 Location: Maurice Saltiel Hall Chair: Rupert Ridgewell |
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Farewell Dinner |
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