International Alliance for Women in Music

Awards

IAWM Awards are to recognize excellence, dedication, and other contributions that encourage, support, and bring attention to superior musicianship.

Pauline Alderman Awards

The Pauline Alderman Awards were founded in 1985 by the International Congress on Women in Music to honor the memory of pioneering musicologist Pauline Alderman, Ph.D. (1893-1983), founder and chair of the Music History Department of the University of Southern California. 

Annual Concert

Annual Concert

IAWM and SEAMUS are calling for submissions of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music to be presented in THE CUBE at Virginia Tech as part of the Virgina Tech New Music + Technology Festival. Call goes live August 1, 2026. Submissions due October 1, 2026.

Annual Concert

Annual Concert

IAWM and SEAMUS are calling for submissions of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music to be presented in THE CUBE at Virginia Tech as part of the Virgina Tech New Music + Technology Festival. Call goes live August 1, 2026. Submissions due October 1, 2026.

Programming Awards

This new IAWM award is to honor and endorse those performers who have made deliberate, conscious efforts to achieve greater gender equity in their programming by including women composers and/or performers. Soloists, chamber ensembles, and arts organizations.

Annual Concert

Annual Concert

IAWM and SEAMUS are calling for submissions of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music to be presented in THE CUBE at Virginia Tech as part of the Virgina Tech New Music + Technology Festival. Call goes live August 1, 2026. Submissions due October 1, 2026.

Annual Concert

Annual Concert

IAWM and SEAMUS are calling for submissions of Electronic and Electroacoustic Music to be presented in THE CUBE at Virginia Tech as part of the Virgina Tech New Music + Technology Festival. Call goes live August 1, 2026. Submissions due October 1, 2026.