The 4th International Conference on Timbre will be held in Montreal, Canada, 2–4 July 2026. It will be hosted by the Faculty of Music at the Université de Montréal. Submissions are invited for research and scholarship dealing with any aspect and application of timbre.

A Call for Participation can be found here.

Submissions are now open. The deadline is 15 December 2025 (AoE).

Past editions

• Timbre 2023: 3rd International Conference on Timbre (10-12 July 2023, Thessaloniki, Greece)
  [proceedings]
  held together with the inaugural Timbre and Orchestration Summer School (8–12 July 2023), a synergy with the ACTOR Project
• Timbre 2020: 2nd International Conference on Timbre (3–4 September 2020, online)
  [proceedings] [videos]
• Timbre 2018: Timbre is a Many-Splendored Thing (4–7 July 2018, Montreal, Canada)
  [proceedings] [videos of research keynote lectures]
• Berlin Interdisciplinary Workshop on Timbre (12–13 January 2017, Berlin, Germany)
  [videos]