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This year’s conference is dedicated to the intersection of psychology and music, spotlighting the advances made in the field of performance psychology. As educators we strive to provide our students with the skills needed to not just perform well but have the mental clarity and confidence to present their very best work on stage. From injury prevention and recovery to psychological resilience and performance anxiety mitigation, the lectures, panels, and workshops of this year’s conference will provide educators with an array of novel tools to guide students to their peak performance.
Performance psychologist Noa Kageyama is on the faculty of The Juilliard School and Cleveland Institute of Music. A violinist with degrees from Oberlin and Juilliard before completing a Ph.D. in counseling psychology at Indiana University, Noa specializes in teaching performing artists how to utilize sport psychology principles to more consistently perform up to their full abilities under pressure.
He has conducted workshops for institutions including Curtis, Eastman, Peabody, New England Conservatory, and the U.S. Armed Forces School of Music, programs such as the Starling-Delay Symposium and the Perlman Music Program, and for organizations like the Music Teachers’ National Association, Performing Arts Medicine Association, and the Association for Applied Sport Psychology.
Noa’s work has been featured in The Wall Street Journal, NBC News, CNN, Forbes, Slate, and Lifehacker. He has taught over 9000 musicians, educators, and learners through his online courses, and authors The Bulletproof Musician blog and podcast, which reaches over 45,000 subscribers every week.
Dr. Kageyama will give a keynote talk on performance psychology and run a workshop at the ASMTA conference.
Pianist Hung-Kuan Chen was born in Taipai and raised in Germany. His early studies fostered strong roots in Germanic Classicism tempered with the sensibility of Chinese philosophy. The winner of the Ferruccio Busoni International Piano Competition and Young Concert Artists International Auditions and the recipient of an Avery Fisher Grant, Chen has collaborated with conductors including Christoph Eschenbach and Hans Graf, and his colleagues include the Tokyo and Shanghai string quartets, cellist Yo-Yo Ma, violinists Cho-Liang Lin and Roman Totenberg, clarinetist David Shifrin, and pianist Tema Blackstone. An adjudicator in international competitions, including the Van Cliburn Competition, Busoni Competition, Honens Competition, and International China Competition, Chen is a former faculty member of Boston University, the New England Conservatory, and the Shanghai Conservatory, and he has been a visiting professor at Yale since 2010. He holds an Artist Diploma from the New England Conservatory where he studied with Russell Sherman. His early studies were with Hans Leygraf in Germany at the Hannover Hochschule and with Béla Böszörményi-Nagy. He has been on the faculty at Juilliard, both in the college and Pre-College Division, since 2014.
Dr. Chen will present a piano recital and run a masterclass at the ASMTA conference.
Conference Registration Form (for mail-in registrations)
University of Arizona School of Music
1017 N. Olive Rd.
Tucson, AZ 85721
Tucson Marriott University Park
880 E. 2nd Street
Tucson, AZ 85719
(520) 792-4100
While the special ASMTA rate is no longer available, you can still contact the hotel for rooms. Reservations can be made here:
The 2026 James R. Anthony Honors Recital finals and recital will be held Saturday, May 30, 2026. More details can be found on the ASMTA Honors Recital page.
Session proposals were received in record number this year. Thank you for your interest! All presenters have been contacted at this time (3/15/2026).
Thank you for your submissions! Poster proposals are closed at this time.
Conference Vendor / Exhibitor Application Form (due by April 15, 2026)
Conference Advertising Application Form (due by April 15, 2026)