Stable concert market in Germany
German professional orchestras and choirs performed around 15,000 concerts and events in 2023/24. This figure is only just below pre-corona levels.
With 15 percent more regular symphony and choir concerts, the orchestras are focusing more on their core business and stabilizing their own income, according to unisono. Chamber music, education programs and concerts abroad were reduced. These are the key findings of the first nationwide concert survey since the coronavirus pandemic.
The figures show that the orchestras and radio orchestras are once again running smoothly, in many places with pleasingly high capacity utilization, explains unisono Managing Director Gerald Mertens. However, increasing financial cuts in public funding are causing concern. If concert halls, operas and orchestras had to cancel their own productions and festivals, this would be counterproductive for healthy artistic development and for attracting more audiences.
Founded in 1952, unisono (until October 2022 the German Orchestra Association, DOV for short) is the professional association and trade union for musicians in municipal, state and regional orchestras, radio orchestras, big bands and for radio choir singers, freelance musicians as well as lecturers and students at music academies.
