Ellen Arkbro: Change Now

The Swedish composer and organist in conversation

Ellen Arkbro is a pioneer of the new wave of drone-inspired pipe organists which started around a decade ago. But while other young female organ players kept successfully working that niche, it seemed as if Arkbro wanted to break out of it as soon as she’d created it.

The Stockholm native, who originally trained as a jazz singer, has a degree in electroa…