ISPS 2025
Shanghai | China
ISPS 2025
Performance Science in Practice
October 29 | 01 November 2025
Shanghai | China
Convened by
Graduate School
Shanghai Conservatory of Music
Centre for Performance Science
Royal College of Music | Imperial College London
Program
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ISPS 2025 Program (696 KB)
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Keynote speakers
Jane Ginsborg, Royal Northern College of Music
Performance science in practice: Healthy performance in challenging times
Werner Goebl, University of Music and Performing Arts, Vienna
Gesture, gaze, and shared intent: How music ensembles shape time together
Mark Katz, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The Half-Century that Changed Violin Playing, 1880-1930
Yandi Yang, Harbin Conservatory of Music and Shanghai Conservatory of Music
The irreplaceability of musical performance: Some philosophical reflections on the nature of music in the age of AI
Graduate award | Papers
Rudimar Bonamigo, University of North Texas
Modeling historically-informed Baroque and Romantic touches in organ performance
Mutong Shao, Royal College of Music
Solo pianists‘ adaptation to different acoustical environments
Frontiers | Performance Science
Building on the publication of articles from ISPS 2013, ISPS 2015, ISPS 2017, ISPS 2019, ISPS 2021, and ISPS 2023 in Frontiers in Psychology, the journal is hosting a Research Topic in the specialty section Performance Science for ISPS 2025 presenters. To qualify, the first (or corresponding) author must be a registered presenter at ISPS 2025, and the manuscript should be submitted to the journal for independent peer-review between 01 November 2025 and 15 April 2026.
Submission deadline: 15 April 2026
To read more about the ISPS 2025 Research Topic and to submit a manuscript for peer review, click HERE »
To learn more about Performance Science, see FRONTIERS »
Note. The ISPS 2025 Research Topic replaces the Proceedings of the International Symposium on Performance Science.
Aaron Williamon, co-chair
Royal College of Music, London (UK)
Jian Yang, co-chair
Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China)
Nicholas Cook
University of Cambridge (UK)
Isabelle Cossette
McGill University (Canada)
Baisheng Dai
Macao Polytechnic University (China)
Krzysztof Dąbrowski
Medical University of Warsaw (Poland)
Fuxiao Gao
Central Conservatory of Music, Beijing (China)
Fernando Gualda
Federal University of Rio Grande do Sul (Brazil)
Lei Jiang
Tongji University, Shanghai (China)
Xiao Kang
China Conservatory of Music, Beijing (China)
Xiaonuo Li
Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China)
Hong Liu
Shanghai Normal University (China)
Raluca Matei
Johns Hopkins University (USA)
Bridget Rennie-Salonen
Stellenbosch University (South Africa)
Wei Zhang
Shanghai Conservatory of Music (China)