2015/16 season review of the Zurich Chamber Orchestra
Concerts at the Zurich Chamber Orchestra (ZKO) are going better than ever before. The annual report for the 2015/16 season shows more visitors, better capacity utilization and higher profitability.
In the 2015/16 season, the ZKO recorded record capacity utilization of 82% on average. Since the 2013/14 season, this figure has increased by almost 30 percent, writes the ZKO. The absolute number of visitors has also risen: While 54,335 people attended a ZKO concert in the previous season, the figure was 61,994 last season.
The ZKO claims a leading role in family concerts: it cites the umbrella organization of Swiss professional orchestras in its 2014/15 annual statistics, according to which the ZKO organizes the most concerts for children compared to other Swiss orchestras. In the 2015/16 season, a total of 37 Nuggi-, Krabbel-, Purzel- and abc-concerts for young families with their children aged 0 and over took place in the ZKO-Haus. The occupancy rate was 87 percent.
The ZKO is increasingly generating its own income. Ticket revenues and acquired non-governmental partner contributions account for an ever larger share of total income. In the 2014/15 season, the ZKO's own profitability amounted to 52.4%. This was further increased to 56.5% in the 2015/16 season.
