Is global competition ruining music schools?
Music schools are increasingly losing their authority over music education and therefore also over health management. At the National Music Health Day, representatives of private and public music education argue about the consequences.
Sustainable health management begins in music education, primarily in music schools, which are well organized in Switzerland and can develop targeted prevention measures. They have the networks and experience to do so. However, more and more private providers, national internet platforms and global offerings in social media are shaking the tried and tested foundations of music education. There is now a wide variety of methodological approaches and providers. As a result, music education is changing from a traditional seller's market with stable, union-protected and therefore comparatively high fees to an almost completely liberalized and globalized buyer's market with high pressure on the income situation of music teachers. There is a danger that health management and prevention will fall by the wayside as dispensable luxury aspects of teaching. This applies all the more to forms of online teaching that hardly allow teachers any physical feedback. In Lucerne, Philippe Krüttli, President of the Swiss Association of Music Schools, Gerhard Wolters from the "Private Academy for Music Education Innovation", which he founded himself, and Dawn Rose, music psychologist at the Lucerne School of Music, will be among those addressing these challenges.
