Executive Summary
•Dozens of music schools are graduating
thousands of performance majors yearly.
•Only 22 full time orchestras in the United
States1. For example, there are roughly 60 full-time jobs for
clarinetists in the entire country.
Jobs are next to non-existent.
•Schools are following the purist traditional European model – teach students
that if they practice hard and play well enough, someone will hand you a place to
play.
•Schools and graduates are relying on others
to supply the venues and jobs.
Who?
•Arts and funding for the arts are on the
decline. State of New Jersey just cut
their arts budget to zero. Organizations are folding
or in financial trouble.
The Problem:
All Supply,
No Demand!
Music Schools cannot pump graduates into a non-existent
market forever!
1- American Symphony Orchestra League:
Orchestras with 52 week seasons.