Corona impact on music schools
The pandemic is having an impact on enrolments at music schools: They are counting fewer registrations for singing or wind music lessons in the 2020/21 fall semester, for example, as a study by the Swiss Association of Music Schools and the Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts shows.
A particularly large number of music schools stated that registrations for singing lessons fell due to the pandemic (around 26%). Just under eleven percent, on the other hand, attributed the decline to a multi-year trend. Around half of the music schools recorded a decline in registrations for woodwind and brass instruments.
Although a third of music schools attributed this to a long-term trend, at least 14% see the pandemic as the reason for the decline in these two instrument groups. According to project manager Camp, singing in choirs and playing wind instruments were particularly affected by increased protective measures. Accordingly, possible risks of infection were often a topic in the media.
In order to gain a more precise picture of the impact on music schools as of the 2020/21 fall semester, the Swiss Music School Association (VMS) and Lucerne University of Applied Sciences and Arts surveyed 391 music schools that are members of the VMS. 219 music school directors from all over Switzerland provided information on the situation as part of the survey.
