The 2009 Newly Elected IAWM Board Members (in alphabetical order)

Susan Borwick

On the IAWM listserv, member and composer Carol Worthey recently invited us to her visual art exhibit, "Joy of Creativity." Her title resonates with my life-experience of composing. Until the last dozen years, composing was a background activity for me -- central to my identity and joy, yet not vital to others' views, who saw me as a theorist, a musicologist, a pianist who also composed. During the last dozen years of healing after divorce and cancer, I have claimed the "joy of creativity" as who I am. What does my personal saga have to do with the IAWM Board? All the experiences between my first published composition almost 50 years ago and this year's batch of ten newly published choral and chamber works have prepared me to serve on the Board -- that is, to facilitate the work of other women composers. I have chaired a liberal-arts department of music, directed a women's studies program, presided over a university senate and a statewide music schools association, designed and implemented a mentoring and leadership program as a member of the Program Administration & Development Council of the National Women's Studies Association, and designed and implemented a curriculum transformation project to focus on our multiple identities, also for the PA&D Council of NWSA. Twenty years ago, I served on and chaired the Committee on the Status of Women of the American Musicological Society. I list these representative experiences in order to say that my journey from simply composing toward being a composer has been circuitous, and useful. I bring this personal and professional background, energy, expertise, and focus to the Board, and ask to serve on it. Addressing the issues and concerns of women in music who are allied together internationally, while our journeys as composers unfold, would be a privilege.

Biography

Composer, musicologist, music theorist, teacher, and ordained minister Susan Borwick was born in Dallas, TX. Enjoying composing music as a child, she published her first composition at age fourteen. She graduated from Baylor University with magna cum laude degrees in music theory and composition, under Prix de Rome winner Richard Willis, and in vocal music education, and then received the Ph. D. in musicology from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, where she studied composition with Roger Hannay. Her dissertation on the music for the stage collaborations of Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht ignited in her a lifelong interest in the collaborative creative process.

Borwick first taught theory and music history at the Baylor University School of Music, for five years. During the next five years, she was an assistant professor at the Eastman School of Music, on the theory and musicology faculties, until becoming chair of the music department at Wake Forest University, where she now is Professor of Music and a member of the Associated Faculty of the Wake Forest University Divinity School. She also is Composer-in-Residence, Knollwood Church, Winston-Salem, NC.

Borwick has guest lectured in Europe, Asia, and North America on women and music, spirituality and the arts, twentieth- and twenty-first-century music, women and violence, and theory pedagogy. Articles and reviews by her are published in Opera Quarterly, Music Library Association Notes, Journal of Thought, Journal of Musicological Research, National Women's Studies Association Journal, and elsewhere, in addition to the International Alliance of Women in Music Journal .

Borwick composes for chorus, treble chorus, solo voice, and chamber ensemble.

Deborah Hayes

In November 2008 our new IAWM president, Hsiao-Lan Wang, appointed me Membership Coordinator, off board, when Mary Lou Newmark wished to step down. In this role I maintain the data base or roster.

The IAWM is financed largely by individual member dues and institutional subscriptions to the IAWM Journal . We must continue to recruit and retain members and subscribers throughout the world who sustain us in our mission.

I submitted my nomination to the board of directors because, as Membership Coordinator, I would like to participate in the board's discussions of membership issues and policies. If elected, I pledge to contribute to the board's efforts to support and strengthen our membership.

From 2000 to 2003 I served a three-year board term during the presidencies of Sally Reid and Kris Burns. Then I served as IAWM Affiliates and Exchanges Coordinator, off board, until 2007.

I am a musicologist, professor emerita from the College of Music of the University of Colorado at Boulder, where I taught undergraduate and graduate-level music history and theory. For five years I was associate dean for graduate studies. Beginning in 1982 I taught a class in the history of women in music, one of the first in the U.S.

Back in the 1970s, I joined the International League of Women Composers, one of the three organizations that formed the IAWM. Before the amalgamation, I contributed articles to the ILWC Journal and the AWC News/Forum . I attended the International Congress on Women in Music held in Mexico City. Now I write for the IAWM Journal and serve on its editorial board.

My website includes a list of my books, music editions, articles, and reviews on historic and contemporary women and men in music, and on gender issues in music.