| Abbazio, Jessica | University of Minnesota | Non-Academic Jobs after a Music Degree Presenter |
| Accornero, Giulia | Yale University | Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Chair
History of Theory II |
| Ace, James Raymond | California State University, Northridge | Politics and Representations of Identity in Music |
| Acevedo, Stefanie | University of Connecticut | Analysis of Popular Music II |
| Ai, Li | Shanxi University, | History of Theory I |
| Ai, Stephen Tian-You | Harvard University | Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison) Organizer
Analytical Approaches to Anime Song (Anison) Presenter |
| Aji, Issa | University of Texas at Austin | Memory, Affect, and Attention |
| Akau, Stephanie | Library of Congress | Preserving Composers’ Work in the Digital Age Presenter |
| Ake, David | Frost School of Music/Univ. of Miami, | Making Use of Jazz on Screen |
| Aldins, Anna | Yale University | Histories of Hidden and Vernacular Theories of Music Presenter |
| Allen, Jane | Boston University | Harmony and Narrative in Film Music |
| Alltop, Laurie | Columbus State University | Musicology Pedagogy for the Future: Incorporating Experiential Learning through Public Musicology Presenter |
| Alonso-Minutti, Ana | University of New Mexico | Musical Sites of Trauma, Critique, and Healing in the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands Presenter |
| Amsellem, Audrey | Columbia University | Legal Auralities: Critical Approaches to Music, Sound, and Law Presenter |
| Amy, Bauer | University of California, Irvine | Hybridity, restructure and renewal: Anthony Braxton at 80 Chair |
| Anderson, Matt E. | University of Kansas | American Orchestral History: the Composers, the Programming, and the Performers Presenter |
| Anderson, Michael | Eastman School of Music | Symbolism and Intermediality in Early Music: New Work Inspired by the Research of Anne Walters Robertson Presenter |
| Anderton, Abby | Baruch College and the Graduate Center, City University of New York | In the Shadow of the Holocaust |
| André, Naomi | University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill | Opera and Untold Black Stories Presenter |
| Angelozzi-Blanco, Gianco | Mount Allison University | Joint Poster Session |
| Arango, Sara | Queen's College, CUNY, | New Paths in Classical Music (AMS Explore) |
| Arango Calle, Miguel | Indiana University | Opera Staging for Effect: Lights, Masks, and Magic |
| Arewa, Olufunmilayo B. | Antonin Scalia Law School, George Mason University | Challenges and Opportunities Presented By Artificial Intelligence in Music Presenter |
| Ashley, Richard D. | Northwestern University, | Joint Poster Session |
| Asnani, Saagar | UC Berkeley | Innovation and Symbolism in Early Modern Motets |
| Assay, Michelle | University of Toronto | Creative (Mis)Reading: Musical Adaptation of the Modern Novel Chair
Iranian Musical Encounters and Meanings |
| Auerbach, Brent | University of Massachusetts Amherst | Don't Wake the Balrog! Navigating Copyright Issues in Publication Discussant |
| Auner, Joseph | Tufts University | The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Chair
The Perils and Promises of Timbrephilia Discussant |
| Auo, Jiyoon | University of Pittsburgh, | Colonial Narratives and Negotiations |
| Ayers, William | University of Central Florida | Harmony and Narrative in Film Music |