News

Seminars at Stockholm Concert Hall

Friday 24 May 2024

On April 19th, we hosted a day-long seminar at the Stockholm Concert Hall’s Aulin auditorium to further develop the database project.

A summary of the meetings (in Swedish) is available at KVAST's website.

Orchestral instrumentation shorthand

To make it easier to find pieces that suite your orchestra, exact orchestral instrumentation is now displayed in shorthand format.

13 August 2026

ELNA full version site launched

It is with great pride that we now launch the full version of ELNA – Equality Library for Nordic Art music, a database comprised of works by women and non-binary composers from the Nordic countries.

8 June 2026

Funding from Arts Council and Helge Ax:son Johnson

Just before summer, ELNA secured two more significant pieces of funding. The Swedish Arts Council (Kulturrådet) awarded us 210,000 SEK, and the Helge Ax:son Johnson Foundation granted 80,000 SEK.

5 August 2025

ELNA Launch Event – a new era for Nordic art music

We are thrilled to announce that ELNA – the Equality Library for Nordic Art music will officially go live on April 23rd 2025.

15 April 2025

Recommendations!

As part of our work toward gender equality in Art music, ELNA will be gathering recommendations on pieces by women and non-binary composers from the Nordic countries.

20 November 2024

Support from the Nordic Culture Fund

ELNA is granted additional funding, enabling a 2025 launch!

28 October 2024

ELNA project website launched!

We are thrilled to announce the launch of the ELNA – Equality Library for Nordic Art Music project website.

19 September 2024