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.
Accepting Proposals for the Journal
Send us your research, articles, profiles, reports and more about Women in Music Globally. for Volume II of the 2026 Journal by February 28th! For submission guidelines, please visit the JOURNAL page.
Accepting Proposals for the Journal
Send us your research, articles, profiles, reports and more about Women in Music Globally. for Volume II of the 2026 Journal by February 28th! For submission guidelines, please visit the JOURNAL page.
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.
Accepting Proposals for the Journal
Send us your research, articles, profiles, reports and more about Women in Music Globally. for Volume II of the 2026 Journal by February 28th! For submission guidelines, please visit the JOURNAL page.
Accepting Proposals for the Journal
Send us your research, articles, profiles, reports and more about Women in Music Globally. for Volume II of the 2026 Journal by February 28th! For submission guidelines, please visit the JOURNAL page.