About Us

The Yale Graduate Music Symposium was founded to promote collegiality and the exchange of ideas between graduate students in all areas of music research. The biennial conference is organized by the ethnomusicology, musicology, and music theory graduate students at Yale’s Department of Music.


2026 YGMS Committee

(alphabetical order by last name)

Conference Co-chairs:  Anna Aldins, Alexandra Dreher

Website/Technology: Shwetant Kumar, Nathan Smith

Publicity: Joyce Li Yue 

Housing: Hanna Akbarpour

Welcoming Committee: Julian Day, Sara Stebbins

Day-of-Volunteers: Kit Thickett


Please send all correspondence to:

ygmsconf@gmail.com

Yale Graduate Student Symposium
c/o Yale Department of Music
469 College Street
New Haven, CT 06511