Who is coming on the Tour de Suisse Musical?
From June 7 to 28, 2025, an interactive map of Switzerland, which will be available on the association's website, will show when and where SMPV members and their students are making music in Switzerland.
SMPV members produce culture every day - in concerts and short performances, with their students at their auditions and in ensemble music-making and cultural participation projects. Many performances take place on a small scale and do not receive the attention they deserve.
That is why the SMPV is organizing a Tour de Suisse Musical from Whit Saturday, 7 to 28 June. In addition to the usual small and large performances, as many events as possible are to be organized in unusual places with cooperation partners, e.g. from local businesses. We are thinking, for example, of a flute duet by two schoolgirls in a bakery in Wengen on a Monday morning. The bakery sells an "SMPV bread" during the three weeks and gives SMPV information material to its customers. A short video recording of the performance is linked to the Tour de Suisse musical map. In the video description and in the tour program there is space to mention the cooperation partners.
Of course, all Whitsun concerts by SMPV members will also be included on the map if links to video clips are provided. Already planned is an open-air ad-hoc choir event by the SMPV Bern in Bern at the end of the tour on June 28, the Palmarès of the prizewinners of the Vaud section exams on June 17, three concerts on June 14, the "Dreiklang" in Winterthur and Elvirissima 2025 on June 9 in Lucerne will also take place as part of the tour.
You could play music on a ship, in a department store, at a vantage point with a correspondingly unusual audience and a particularly beautiful cinematic background. A short crawling concert could take place outside on a playground. Good, even slightly crazy ideas are needed! SMPV members (or sections) can register their performances and those of their students at: smpv.ch/anmeldeformuar-formulaire-dinscription-modulo-di-registrazione-tour-de-suisse-musical .
I am supported by Guy Fasel (Vaud), Akiko Hasegawa (Aargau), Florian Mall (Northwestern Switzerland) and Josira Salles (Biel/Jura) in the OC, which is responsible for coordinating the events for the main route of the tour.
Anyone who is also interested in joining the OC is welcome to get in touch.
We are looking forward to a colorful, sonorous and somewhat crazy tour and to getting to know many members from a new perspective along the way.
