The Swedish Flute Association started in 2013 on the initiative of Torleif Ander, Associate Professor at the University of Örebro and Mr Ander is chairmen since the start. The association organized it´s first festival in April 2014 at the University of Örebro.
At this first convention exclusively Swedish artists participated and the festival gath
ered some of the very best Swedish flutist, teachers and clinicians.
The following year the 2nd festival took place in Örebro again and this time the visiting artists came from Sweden,
Norway, Denmark, Germany and France.
2016 the association has started the next step in development, and the festival is from now on planned to move to different places each year. This year Uppsala will host The Swedish Flute Festival and the contributing artists will arrive from a number of countries.