ELNA – Equality Library for Nordic Art music
(For Swedish, scroll down)
Nordic database for gender equality in art music
ELNA – Equality Library for Nordic Art music – is developing a database of works by women and gender minoritized composers in the genre of Western Art Music from the Nordic countries.
The project is headed by KVAST along with other organizations and individuals in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Denmark, and the finished database will be run by several institutions and represent all the Nordic countries. It will be marketed worldwide and will make repertoire by women and gender minoritized composers from the Nordic countries easily available to musicians all over the world. The database will thus function as a tool in our work toward increased equality in terms of repertoire on the world’s art music scene.
The marketing will promote the common profile of the Nordic countries concerning gender equality, and we expect it to help increase the number of performances by Nordic women and gender minoritized composers, as well promoting gender equality in the repertoire on the classical music scene in the Nordic region and in the rest of the world.
We are always interested in enlarging the network for the database project. If you want to be part of our network, please contact project leader Katharina Metsis at katharina.metsis@kvast.org.
In 2024 we had an inspiring day at Stockholm Concert House!
Project-plan-2023-2026-Export-of-Music-by-Nordic-Women-and-Nonbinary-Composers-1Partners and financial support 2025:
Members of steering group
Elvira Mormino
Promotion manager at Edition Hansen and coordinator of the Danish working group.
Petteri Nieminen
Chair of Savo Music Society and coordinator of the Finnish working group.
Sofia Sahlin
Chair of KVAST and coordinator of the Swedish working group
Collaborators
Denmark
Edition Wilhelm Hansen music publishers
Edition S, Denmark
SNYK – Art Music Denmark
Kvinder i musik – Women in Music Denmark
Finland
NOBU Nordic Orchestra Library Union
Sebastian Djupsjöbacka
Susanna Välimäki
Finlands musikarv rf – Finland Music Heritage
Fennica Gehrman
Riikka Talvitie
Faroe Islands
Tutl and FFT The Faroe Islands Composers Society
Norway
Norges Nasjonalbibliotek – Norway National Library
Norsk komponistförening – The Norwegian Composers Society
Sweden
Nordiska kammarorkestern – Nordic Chamber Orchestra
Musik i Dalarna – The county institution for music in Dalarna
Västerås Sinfonietta
Musica Vitae
Musik- och Teaterbiblioteket – The Music and Theatre Library
Malmö Symfoniorkester – Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Kungliga Musikaliska Akademien Levande Musikarv – Swedish Musical Heritage
Kungliga Filharmonikerna – The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
