2007	Zurich, Switzerland: “Sonic Transformations of Literary Works: From Program Music to Musical Ekphrasis,” all-day group session organized at the conference “Transitions” of the International Musicological Society
2002	Leuven, Belgium: "A Concert of Paintings: Musical Ekphrasis Throughout the Centuries," three-part symposium organized for the 17th International Congress of the International Musicological Society (Part 1: "Reflections on musical ekphrasis and the correspondance of the arts"; Part 2: "Composers responding to specific works of art"; Part 3: "Conceptual equivalence in musical ekphrasis")
2001	Imatra, Finland: "Musical Ekphrasis," thematic session organized for the Seventh International Congress on Musical Significationn (ICMS7) "Music and the Arts"
1999	Ann Arbor, Michigan: "Second International Conference for Word and Music Studies"
1998	Ann Arbor, Michigan: "Viktor Ullmann Centennial Celebration" (incl. musico-literary symposium "The Emperor of Atlantis: Defiance in Terezín," four concerts, talks, etc.)
1996	Baton Rouge, Louisiana: "Text and Subtext: Musical Quotations, Allusions and Tropes," thematic session organized for the Annual Conference of the Society for Music Theory
1996	Santa Barbara, California: "Case Studies in Musical Hermeneutics," thematic session organized for the Annual Meeting of the Semiotic Society of America
1996	Utrecht, The Netherlands: "The Twentieth Century and the Middle Ages: Cases of Musical Memory," thematic session organized for the 5th World Congress of the International Society for the Study of European Ideas
1995-96	Ann Arbor, Michigan: “Paul Hindemith Centennial Celebration” incl. four recitals and subsequent CD recordings (available through Equilibrium Recordings)
1995	Portland, Oregon: "Methodological Approaches in Musical Hermeneutics," panel session organized for the Annual Meeting of the College Music Society
1995	Portland, Oregon: "Examples of Applied Hermeneutic Analysis," thematic session organized for the Annual Meeting of the College Music Society
1995	Old Town Alexandria: "Symmetry in Music, Dance, Drama, and Poetry: Interdisciplinary Perspectives," international symposium organized as an integral component of "Symmetry: Natural and Artificial, The Third Interdisciplinary Congress and Exhibition of the International Society for the Interdisciplinary Study of Symmetry"
1994	Gainesville, Florida: "The Education of the Professional Musician: Towards a Change of Attitudes Regarding Purpose, Goals and Values," international symposium organized in the seires of biannual meetings of the ISME Commission for the Education of the Professional Musician