International Alliance for Women in Music


Home Programs SWAN Day News & Reviews SWAN Day Events Calendar WomenArts Network Find Funding Build Your Skills About Us Mission Staff Board Funders Contact Us Join Us Mailing List Sign-up Post Artist Profile Post an Event Visit Our Store

Search Artists | Create New Profile | My Account | Help

International Alliance for Women in Music
Deborah Hayes, Membership and Journal Subscriptions

Email	Send an email to this Artist >>
Website	http://www.iawm.org >>

Click to Enlarge

Mission Statement: The International Alliance for Women in Music is devoted to celebrating the contributions of all women musicians, past, present and future.

A coalition of professional composers, conductors, performers, musicologists, educators, librarians and lovers of music, men as well as women, the IAWM encourages the activities of women in music:

by encouraging the publication and distribution of music by women composers.

by supporting performances and recordings of women composers.

by fostering scholarly research on women-in-music topics.

by facilitating communication among members and with other organizations.

by implementing various broadcast series, competitions and educational programs.

by encouraging member participation in other composer groups.

by continuing the International Congresses on Women in Music as International Alliance for Women in Music Congresses.

by initiating advocacy work on behalf of women in music.

by actively seeking diversity in participation on the board and in IAWM projects, activities and events.

Current Work IAWM Congress, in Flagstaff, Arizona, September 2011
History The International Alliance for Women in Music was formed on January 1, 1995 through the merger of the International Congress for Women in Music, the American Women Composers and the International League of Women Composers. The Uniting Organizations International Congress on Women in Music The ICWM was founded in 1979 by Jeannie Pool to form an organizational basis for women-in-music conferences and meetings. The Library of the ICWM is now housed at the International Institute for the Study of Women in music located at the California State University, Northridge. The collection includes books and recordings gathered by Aaron I. Cohen, editor of the International Encyclopedia of Women Composers and Congress members' scores and tapes. American Women Composers The AWC was founded in 1976 by Tommie E. Carl to promote music by women composers. The AWC's many projects have included recordings of music by women by women on the Bravura label (Capriccio Series I and II), concerts at such locations as the Kennedy Center, Carnegie Hall and the National Museum for Women in the Arts and the formation of a score and tape library of member's works. International League of Women Composers The ILWC was founded in 1975 by Nancy Van de Vate to create and expand opportunities for women composers of serious music. The League's many projects have included the Search for New Music, various regional and international broadcast series, including the Australian Broadcast Series and Expressions, the 1981 publication by Greenwood Press of member biographies and works in Contemporary Concert Music by Women: a directory of the composers and their works (edited by Judith Lang Zaimont and Karen Famera) and the establishment of an electronic communications network and ftp site for women-in-music materials.
Artist Location International
Type of artist Composer, Performer, Arts Educator
General Themes Art Forms/Art Criticism, Feminism/Gender Issues, Education, International/Global
Keywords composers, librarians, conductors, musicologists, performers
Last updated on January 27th, 2011

WomenArts • 3739 Balboa Street #181, San Francisco, CA 94121 • Contact Us>>

© WomenArts 2011 unless noted otherwise. All rights reserved.
Please be sure to credit WomenArts if you publish information from our website.
WomenArts is the new name of The Fund for Women Artists,
a 501(c)(3) non-profit corporation.