While the focus of the SMPV last year was on professionalizing the association, in 2025 the focus will once again be on music education and music itself.
That is why our "Tour Musical SMPV/SSPM" will take place from June 7 to 28, 2025. It is a stage for the artistic activities of our members and for the music education success they demonstrate with performances by their students.
The Tour Musical OC provides you, dear members, with documents for the tour: on our homepage, smpv.ch, can be found under "Downloads/Documents" in"Instructions for members" detailed information about the Tour Musical. You will also find a form "Registration/declaration of consent", which you can have the students performing at your tour event or their parents fill out and sign. This ensures that you are legally protected if videos of your tour event are later published on the interactive map on tour-musical.ch be published.
We include various categories of events on this tour map and in the tour program:
1. section events such as teacher concerts or music lessons that take place during the three tour weeks.
2. concerts by our members (solo, chamber music, choir or orchestra), if the concert organizers agree that part of the performance may be filmed and posted on YouTube, and that this video may be included in the description of the event on tour-musical.ch. In return, we will advertise the event in our tour program.
3. events organized by the sections or individual members especially for the Tour Musical, which can take place with or without cooperation partners.
Events with cooperation partners
The OC has compiled a "Sponsors' Brochure", which you can order by telephone from the Central Secretariat (031 352 22 66) or by e-mail from marianne.wälchli@smpv.ch and which you can use to attract cooperation partners for your tour event. In the brochure you will find a table showing exactly how much the SMPV will donate for which service. In the lower categories, you yourself provide the primary service with your performance or the performance of your students, and therefore you may retain the donation amount. In the higher categories, the SMPV provides services in the form of advertising space, writing and publishing company portraits and landing pages on its various websites. This effort must be compensated. You therefore negotiate the sponsorship agreement with the cooperation partners and the SMPV for these categories. In such cases, the SMPV claims a percentage of the donation amount for its work.
You, the cooperation partners and the SMPV can all benefit from such events. You benefit from the fact that the SMPV advertises your event and from the fact that the sponsors support your event financially. They benefit from advertising for their company - bear in mind that the approximately 2,500 SMPV members teach around 32,000 students of all ages throughout Switzerland. And finally, the SMPV benefits from the fact that the events with cooperation partners open up new circles that get to know the SMPV and also the platforms mein-musikunterricht.ch and rent-a-musician.ch.
Competition
Don't worry, the OC does not presume to be able to judge which member is the most artistically talented or which member teaches best. Rather, the competition is intended to encourage members to organize unusual projects for the tour. The member with the most original performance on a particular tour day will be rewarded with the title of "artist of the day" or "teacher of the day", and on tour-musical.ch a portrait of the member appears, which in turn is linked to their profiles on my-music-lessons.ch, rent-a-musician.ch and the member's homepage.
If you do not wish to take part in the competition, you can do so when you register for the Tour Musical in the Registration form note.