International Alliance for Women in Music

Conferences Archive

Every three years, IAWM brings together performers, composers, scholars, innovators, conductors, audio engineers, improvisers, theorists, and more who celebrate, challenge, and transform our future through music. 

IAWM Conferences and Congresses 

 

2025 IAWM / CMS Conference, Bogotá, and Medellin Colombia, June 15-25, 2025

Sponsored by Pontificia Universidad Javeriana and Universidad EAFIT

*2025: Vol 31. #3 pp. 14-15

 

2022 IAWM Conference, Corvallis Oregon, June 2-4, 2022

Sponsored by Oregon State University

*2022: Vol. 28. #3  pp. 2-3

 

2019 IAWM Conference, Boston, Massachusetts, June 6-9 2019

Sponsored by Berklee College of Music

Feminists and Music: Transforming Tomorrow Today; With Feminist Theory & Music

*2019: Vol. 25. #2  pp. 19-24

 

2015 IAWM Online Congress, April 13-19, 2015,

Supported by Wake Forest University

*2015: Vol. 21. #1  pp. 53-54

 

2011 IAWM Congress, Flagstaff, Arizona, September 15-18 2011

Sponsored by Northern Arizona University

*2011: Vol. 17. #2  pp. 45-55 Report (Vol. 1, pp. 44-45 has the 2-page schedule)

 

2008: IAWM Congress, Beijing, China April 18-22, 2008

China Conservatory of Music, Anne Kilstofte, chair, Li Yiding, Host in China (now deceased).

*2008: Vol. 14 #2 pp. 18-28

 

2006: IAWM Congress Miami Florida, May 10-13, 2006

Sponsored by Florida International University, Music School

*2006: Vol. 12 #2 p. 25-26.

#1 pp. 24-26 (Entire program)

 

2003 International Festival of Women in Music Today, Seoul, Korea, April 8-12

Sponsored by the Korean Society of Women Composers, cooperation with IAWM

At Seoul Arts Center and various locations.

https://www.womennews.co.kr/news/articleView.html?idxno=170194

*2003: Vol. 9 #2  P. 21-26

 

1999 11th International Congress on Women in Music, London, England; July 7-9, 1999

St. Mark’s and Rosary Halls

With Feminist Theory & Music 5.  July 7-9, 1999

*2000 Vol. 6 #1 pp. 31-34. London

 

1997 10th International Congress, Valencia California  May 29-June 1, 1997

California Arts University

*1997: Vol. 3, No. 3 p. 32-39

Info in 1996, Vol 2,No. 3  p. 22

 

1995 9th International Congress, Vienna, Austria, April 27-30 1995

The Wittgenstein House in Vienna

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 2 p. 31

 

1993 MusicALASKAwomen Festival, Fairbanks Alaska August 9-14, 1993

University of Alaska Fairbanks hundreds of women composers, performers, teachers, music librarian for an international festival dedicated to the compositions of women composers from the 12th century to the present

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 p. 7

 

1992  8th International Congress on Women in Music –March 18-22, 1992, Bilbao, Spain

University of the Basque Country, ‘La otra Historia de la Musica’

 

1991  7th International Congress on Women in Music – May 29-June 2, 1991.Utrecht, The Netherlands

The State University of Utrecht. Organized by Tera de Marez Oyens

Beyond Biography’ – Muziekcentrum Vredenburg, Utrecht, NL

https://online.ucpress.edu/jm/article-abstract/9/4/533/63817/Beyond-Biography-Seventh-International-Congress-on?redirectedFrom=fulltext

 

 1990 6th 1990 International Congress on Women in Music  – March 8-11, New York

The Women-in-Music Movement: Reflections and Renewal 10th anniversary of the Congress.At the Omni Park Central Hotel and the New School for Social Research with Keynote address by Dr. Edith Borroff, as documented in SOURCE READINGS from the International Congress on Women in Music Edited by Dr. Jeannie Gayle Pool and Beverly Simmons, published by Jaygayle Music Books, 2019.

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 p. 6

 

1988 5th International Congress on Women in Music – in Bremen and (Heidelberg) West Germany. June 17-26 w/4th International Festival of Women Composers

Co-Directors Siegrid Ernst (Bremen) and Roswitha Sperber (Heidelberg) In conjunction with the Congress and the Festival and by invitation of the Institute of Culture Heidelberg, The International Council for Traditional Music with the newly formed study group, “Music and Gender,” jointly with the Musicological Institute of the University of Heidelberg (coordinator for Europe: Dr. Susanne Ziegler, Freie Universität Berlin, Institute of Musicology).

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 p. 6

 

1984 3rd International Congress on Women in Music  – Mexico City, March 22-25

Sponsored by the Mexican National Institute of Fine Arts (Bella Artes)

and the Mayor of the City of Fresnillo, Zacatecas

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 p. 5

 

1982 2nd International Congress on Women in Music  – Los Angeles, April 1-4

University of Southern California School of Music

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 p. 5

 

1981 1st International Congress on Women in Music  – New York, March 26-29, 1981

Sponsored by New York University, held in five locations, the first

International Congress on Women in Music was organized by Jeannie Pool in 1981

Updated July 29, 2022 Source Readings Jeannie Gayle POOL (2009)

*1995: Vol. 1, No. 1 p. 4