| Abedinifard, Morteza | McGill University | Musical Modernisms and Categories of Identity |
| Accornero, Giulia | Yale University | Historical Approaches to Music Cognition Chair |
| Agnon, Uri | Independent Scholar | Contemporary Musical Modernisms Study Group: Inaugural Meeting and Training Session Presenter |
| Agugliaro, Siel | Centro Studi Giacomo Puccini | Sounding Soft Power: Musical Diplomacy Across Borders |
| Ajibade, Seyi | University of Pittsburgh | Layered Translations: Institutions, Instruments, and Gender in African Art Music Presenter |
| Akbarpour, Hannaneh | Yale University, | Sounding Resistance in Global Music |
| Alexander, Tamsin | Goldsmiths, University of London (UK) | Sound Technologies of the fin de siècle |
| Alfieri, Gabe | Salve Regina University | Musical Childhood in the 20th Century |
| Alonso Minutti, Ana | University of New Mexico | Becoming Lloronas: Walking and Wailing toward Healing (CWG Lecture) |
| Anderson, Brian | University of North Texas | What Class Time Is For: Music History Pedagogy across Formats and Student Bodies Presenter |
| Anderton, Abby | CUNY Graduate Center | Staging Operatic Trauma Chair |
| Andre, Naomi | University of North Carolina | Postcolonial Operatic Modernities: Love, Indigeneity, and Afterlives in Black and African Contexts Discussant |
| Andries, Annelies | Utrecht University | International Conversations about Music, Sound, and Trauma Presenter |
| Aoki, Kei | Tokyo National Research Institute for Cultural Properties | Research into the Methodology Behind Digitally Archiving Materials Related to Kabuki Music (IMSEA) Presenter |
| Arkle, Genevieve Robyn | King's College London, | Crises of Masculinity |
| Arku, Kamilla | New York University | Layered Translations: Institutions, Instruments, and Gender in African Art Music Presenter |
| Arroyo, Luciana | Tufts University, | Politics of Identity and Representation in Latin America |
| Asare, Masi | Northwestern University | The Pitch of Blackness: Sounding Race on Broadway (Critical Race Lecture) |
| Atkinson, Charles | Ohio State University / Universität Würzburg | Theories of Premodern Music: Expectations and Enigmas |
| Auo, Jiyoon | University of Pittsburgh | Echoes of Colonialism in Modern Korean Music |
| Austerklein, Matthew | Halle-Wittenberg University | Emerging Scholar Workshop Presenter |
| Avdeeff, Melissa | University of Stirling | Platforming Popular Music Presenter |
| Avila, Jacqueline | University of Texas at Austin | From ‘cine silente’ to TikTok: Music, Sound, and Moving Media Across the Ibero-American World Presenter |