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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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
A selection of articles from ISPS 2025 are being peer-reviewed and will be published in Performance Science, a speciality section of the open-access journal Frontiers in Psychology. The full collection will be freely available to download here »
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)