he International Orpheus Academy for Music and Theory is the annual conference organised by the Orpheus Research Centre. For the Academy, a selected guest faculty with outstanding expertise in a specific topic is invited to attend a series of lectures and to write an individual essay. All researchers from the Orpheus Research Centre, as well as the doctoral students from the docARTES programme, are invited to participate, and have the opportunity to present aspects of their research to a high-level group of experts. In its first eight editions, from 2003 until 2011, the Orpheus Academy was particularly oriented towards music theory and historical musicology, and all those acade-mies had a profoundly historical perspective, focusing on particular periods of Western art music. Their faculty constitution was impressive, and the Academy gained international recognition as an important event for musicians, per-formers, composers, musicologists, and music theorists alike. Since 2012, a reorientation took place and the academies primarily addressed transhistorical aspects of the utmost relevance for artistic research of less relevance for histor-ical musicology or applied music theory.