Awareness & Advocacy
Our Mission
The International Alliance for Women in Music (IAWM) fosters and encourages the activities of women in music.
The Vision
The IAWM is the world’s leading organization devoted to the equity, promotion, and advocacy of women in music across time, cultures, and genres.
Providing a voice for women in music since 1995
What We Do
Advocacy & community
Champions for Equity
A Platform for women's voices
opportunities
INTERNATIONAL ALLIANCE FOR WOMEN IN MUSIC
Latest News & Updates
2022 IAWM Conference
Conference update: Notification Responses for submissions will be sent out by February 9, 2022. Registration for the Call & (HER) Response: Music in the Time of Change, will begin February 8, Keynote Speaker, Musicologist and Researcher Nina Eidsheim from UCLA will be our featured speaker. See Conference page.
Register for Webinar
Please tune in for Re-framing Female Composers: with Elizabeth de Brito Webinar on Saturday, Jan. 22 – 2pm EST / 7pm GMT.
Click below for information on registering!
Advertising Rates
Advertise in the Journal of the IAWM. Camera-ready ads are due December 30 (for the Winter Issue), March 30 (for the Spring issue), June 30 for the Summer Issue, and September 30 (for the Fall issue).
Membership Opportunities
Concerts & Competitions
Search for New Music
The call for the 2022 “Search for New Music by Women Composers” launches March 1, 2022 . Membership in IAWM is required, but the call is open to IAWM women-identified composer members.
Annual Concert
A plethora of diverse music will be at the IAWM Conference June 2-4 in Covalis, Oregon, Antwerp Belgium, and streamed from various locales. See the CONFERENCE page for more details. The Annual Concert will resume in 2023.
Radio Requests
Since 2004, the IAWM has used the Radio Requests campaign to promote broadcasts of music by women composers. Every week, participants in the IAWM’s listserv and visitors to this Web page are encouraged to ask local and Internet stations to play works by a chosen woman composer.
IAWM Calendar
February 8, 2022: Conference Registration Begins!
More information on the Conference page coming soon.
February 15, 2022 - Deadline for LunART Call for Scores
Open to women composers of all ages and nationalities. Up to three works are selected to be performed at our Annual Festival. https://www.lunartfestival.org/callforscores
March ??, 2022: BEYOND THE NOTES WEBINAR
TBD: We are planning our next webinar! If you are interested in making a proposal for future webinars, please email: [email protected]
IAWM Members
Today’s Featured Members
Hasu Patel
Composer / Performer / Educator
Migiwa Miyajima
Composer / Pianist / Producer
Linda Dusman
Libby Meyer
