Violin is instrument of the year 2020
The Instrument of the Year project will be launched in ten German federal states in January 2020. The violin was unanimously voted Instrument of the Year by the participating state music councils at the conference of state music councils.
In each participating federal state, the project is supported by its own patrons. Each federal state has its own approach to achieving the cross-state goal: To arouse curiosity and attention for the many facets of the violin.
In 2019, the Schleswig-Holstein State Music Council declared the saxophone the instrument of the year. The Swiss saxophonist and President of the Lübeck University of Music, Rico Gubler, has been won as patron.
The aim of the project is to do public relations work for music as a whole, but also to illuminate an instrument in many different facets. The website www.instrument-des-jahres.de has been online since January 9, 2020 and links the countries' project information, among other things.
