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It is very exciting to hear and read from SMPV colleagues about the special concerts, student concerts, courses and cultural participation projects they are planning for the period from June 7 to 28, 2025, and to feel that some of these events are real projects of the heart.

Members usually call us for advice on labor law or music education issues, for support in filling their profiles on my-music-lessons.ch or rent-a-musician.ch  or simply to inform them of a change of address. But now it's about their music and their music education - in other words, about what drives them every day and what they are passionate about. This reminds me a little of the time when the SMPV still offered professional training and was not yet a purely professional association. Back then, the focus was on the daily artistic and pedagogical work of SMPV members and not on the technical and administrative side of things. I personally think it's great that the Tour Musical brings something of this back to us!

The tour events
Apparently, the SMPV members are still reluctant to use the sponsorship brochure designed by the organizing committee and use it to find cooperation partners for their events. But perhaps we will repeat the tour in two to three years' time and then make the brochures available at least a year before the start of the tour so that there is enough time to find sponsors. In any case, most of the events registered so far are taking place without cooperation partners. They can be divided into three groups:

Section events
The Vaud section, for example, has registered the "Palmarès", the concert of the best students in the level examinations, which will take place on June 17 in Villeneuve. On 14 June, the tour will head to the Alte Stadthaus in Winterthur, where the Winterthur/Zurich Oberland section is organizing three concerts for pupils and teachers. The Bern tour music lesson will take place on June 20 and the concertant! in Bern with Eva Röntz, cello and Reto Reichenbach, piano on June 21, and finally the tour will take us to Schaffhausen, where the SMPV music school concert will take place on June 28.

Solo or chamber music concerts by members
In this category, members register concerts or a combination of courses and a concert. Guitarist Hanspeter Krüsi, for example, sets a special accent with his color concert on 11 June in Aathal-Seegräben, where he bathes the church in different colors and then transforms them into music in an improvisational virtuoso manner. Marc-Henri Aubert combines a master class and a recital in Vufflens on June 21, and Adalberto Riva poses the question of whether a piano can sing in his commented concert in Morges on June 28.

Larger events
Violinist Marc Tairraz has submitted what is probably the most spectacular project to date: on June 21, he will unite his amateur orchestra Amati and Amati junior, made up of his young violin students, with the Orchestre de Chambre de Lausanne for an interactive concert on the stage of the Lausanne Opera. The audience solves quiz questions about the program during the concert. On the same day, the GuitarSoundOrchestra under Jürg Moser performs the anniversary concert "30 years GSO" in Boswil. With around 20 guitarists aged between 13 and 26, the GSO is the largest guitar ensemble in Switzerland. On 28 June, the Tour-Musical-ad-hoc-Choir under Johannes Schröder will perform a varied program at the Rosengarten in Bern. If you would like to sing along, you can register at smpv.ch/bern/registration-tour-musical-chor-bern can still register until May 24.

This is just a small selection from the tour program that you can find on tour-musical.ch and more events are being added all the time, and of course we will be happy to add your concert to the tour map if you register it by May 15, 2025 at the latest:  smpv.ch/anmeldeformuar-formulaire-dinscription-modulo-di-registrazione-tour-de-suisse-musical

Answers to the most frequently asked questions
- If you want to register a concert with pupils from your music school, you must discuss this with the music school management. We will then link the event to the music school's homepage and add it to the list of cooperation partners. For example, the Muri-Gümligen music school has allowed our colleague, Elisabeth Ronja Haerdi, to perform the open-air concert with two ensembles from the music school as part of the tour.
- Yes, if you find a cooperation partner in categories C' to F, you may retain the entire sponsorship fee yourself.
- A picture of the performers, the performance venue or an instrument is suitable as a contribution picture for your event.
- The Tour Musical instructions for members and the declaration of consent for your pupils and their parents can be found at smpv.ch under "Downloads".

I will be happy to answer any further questions at marianne.waelchli@smpv.ch

We look forward to your contribution to the Tour Musical!

The Guitar Sound Orchestra under the direction of Jürg Moser performs on June 21 in the old church in Boswil
photo by Renate Moser