Equality Library for Nordic Art music
Nordic database for gender equality in art music
ELNA – Equality Library for Nordic Art music – is 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. 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 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 our administrator Siri Landgren siri.landgren@kvast.org.
Partners and financial support during development:
Team ELNA
Siri Landgren
As KVAST’s communicator, Siri Landgren works on ELNA’s documents and visual and digital presence.
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
Dansk komponistförening – Danish Composers’ Society
Finland
Savon soitannollinen seura – Savo Music Society
Finska Tonsättare rf – The Society of Finnish Composers
NOBU Nordic Orchestra Library Union
Finlands musikarv rf – Finland Music Heritage
Faroe Islands
FFT – The Faroe Islands Composers’ Society
Norway
Norges Nasjonalbibliotek – National Library of Norway
UiT Norges arktiske universitet – The Arctic University of Norway
Universitetet i Stavanger – The University of Stavanger
Sweden
KVAST – The Swedish Association of Women Composers
Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien Levande Musikarv – Swedish Musical Heritage
Kungliga Filharmonikerna – The Royal Stockholm Philharmonic Orchestra
Musik- och Teaterbiblioteket – The Music and Theatre Library
Nordiska kammarorkestern – Nordic Chamber Orchestra
Musik i Dalarna – The county institution for music in Dalarna
Malmö Symfoniorkester – Malmö Symphony Orchestra
Stiftelsen Christ Johnson Musik Pris Fund i Kungl. Musikaliska Akademien
Please contact us if you want to be part of the project!
With support from
The project wants to contribute to sustainable development in the Nordic region and the world and uses, among other things, the “Nordic Council of Ministers’ policy for integrating sustainable development, gender equality and a child rights and youth perspective”
The financial support from these Swedish orchestras
was of great importance in the start-up of the project.
Many thanks to:
