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
2021 IAWM Programming Award Winner
The Programming Award recognizes those performers who have made deliberate, conscious efforts to achieve greater gender equity in their programming by including women composers and/or performers.
2022 Call for Conference
The IAWM invites you to contribute a proposal for presentations, performances and panels for Call & (HER) Response: Music in the Time of Change, our 2022 Hybrid Conference from June 2-4, 2022.
New IAWM Board Members
Check out our new ten new Board members! With years of experience in diverse facets of music, they are dedicated to advancing the visibility of women’s music, and shaping the future of this organization.
Membership Opportunities
Concerts & Competitions
Search for New Music
The IAWM has announced its annual “Search for New Music by Women Composers” competition. Membership in IAWM is required, but the call is open to IAWM women-identified composer members.
Programming Award
The deadline for the 2021 Programming Award is September 15th, 2021. Awards are open to any solo performers, performance groups, or arts organizations that are current members of IAWM. Look under PROGRAMS for more details.
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
December 19, 2021: Conference Proposals Due
Open Call for Conference Proposals
See Conferences Page for more information
December 30, 2021 - Due date for Journal Proposals for Articles, Reports and more for IAWM's FIRST EVER Winter 2022 Journal
See Journal page for more details
January 22, 2022: BEYOND THE NOTES WEBINAR
Elizabeth de Brito of the Daffodil Perspective, 11am Pacific; 2:00 Eastern and 7:00 GMT British musicologist and gender equity activist Elizabeth de Brito addresses some of the issues surrounding the increased promotion of female composers
IAWM Members
Today’s Featured Members
Monica Jakuc Leverett
Hannah Selin
Linda Dusman
Libby Meyer
