Membership

KVAST is a nonprofit organization open to everyone, regardless of gender or background, who is in sympathy with our goals and wants to help us achieve them.

The goals of KVAST are:

  • To increase the percentage of works by women composers in the repertoire
  • To educate program committees about the existing repertoire of music written by women
  • To raise awareness for gender as a consideration when selecting repertoire

Become a member – SEK 150!

The current membership fee is SEK 150. You can pay with Swish, with your bank card, or via PayPal. Our Swish number is 123 230 3279. If you prefer to pay online using your bank card, click or tap the “Add to cart” button above, then click or tap the yellow button to check out and complete your payment.

If you would like to sign up for our member mailing list, please e-mail us at medlem@kvast.org with your name and e-mail address.

If paying directly to our postal giro account (KVAST – account number 49 45 60-0), don’t forget to specify your name and the year for which you are paying. For transfers from other banks, add the clearing number 3300 in front of the postal giro account number.

Contact KVAST

About us

The Swedish Association of Women Composers (Kvinnlig Anhopning av Svenska Tonsättare – KVAST) is a nonprofit organization whose mission is to raise awareness for women composers and promote the performance of their music.
What’s a kvast, you may ask? In Swedish, the word kvast means “broom.”

About KVAST

The Repertoire Bank

At over 3,000 works (and counting), our database of music by women composers is among the largest in the world! Browse or search the records and hear samples of a wide range of music: symphonic and chamber, electronic and live electronic, choral and operatic. Find compositions by women based on genre, difficulty level, instrumentation, title or duration.

To The Repertoire Bank

Knowledge and Inspiration

Listen, look, read and learn more!
Here you can find selection of women composers with short bio and also a statistics report from Sweden 2016-2019.
Furthermore there are links to lists on Spotify and Youtube, a collection of Links and Tips and link to theory examples.

Knowledge and Inspiration