How Performance Tours Help Young Musicians Hone Their Craft

Performance tours are musical tours associated with high schools and education organisations where a group of young musicians travels as a team to different cities, countries or states to perform in a public space, such as the Golden Hall in Vienna or Carnegie Hall in New York. 

Performance tours are a great way to help young musicians develop as it challenges their musical skills, makes them interact with unfamiliar surroundings while also letting them see how much their practice and training has paid off, both in the actual performance and because their musical practice has allowed them to travel to a new destination as part of the tour itself. The following are the ways a performance tour can help young musicians become better at their craft. 

Creates a Drive to Excel

School music tours or tours that are part of educational music programs offer many students and young musicians an opportunity that they may only get from a musical education program. Travelling with a performance tour can be one of the only ways certain students can leave their homes and experience new and exciting places they may never get the chance to otherwise, as well as enjoy a level of freedom and independence that can help them develop into greater musicians. 

With the promise of travel and the general experience of school music tours, the student will want to excel and perfect their musical craft, so they can keep having new experiences on different tours and dedicate themselves to this lifestyle once they leave school or complete their education program. 

Tests Musical Skills

Young musicians should have been practising well in advance for any actual performances they may be booked for during a tour, however when it comes to actually playing a venue, the experience could be completely different than what they are used to. Many ‘training wheels’ that a young performer may have gotten used to will not be with them on stage, as they are in front of a live audience that is fully focused on their playing. 

This gives young musicians a chance to honestly test their musical abilities in a fair and unbiased way, as their performances will have to adapt to the new environment, the many different performance stages and, when possible, to new musical techniques as well.

Creates Learning Opportunities

Performance tours may see young musicians interacting with new forms of music, new teachers and directors and other students from different tours or local programs. Students will be learning and studying fascinating forms of music, as well as working with local teachers and mentors to learn new and exciting music techniques. 

Venues such as the Chicago Symphony Theater or the Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles are built for concerts and have acoustics and aesthetics that are well crafted, beautiful and gigantic, each hall having been designed for professional performers usage, letting students experience the next level of their musical career and learn what the future of their career has in store for them in a vivid and real way. 

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Develop Teamwork

During performance tours, musicians will be working with each other not only to make performances and concerts the highest quality they can be, but they will also need to spend personal time together and work as a team in order to make the tour run as smoothly as possible. 

The benefits of teamwork development aren’t just for young musicians either. Directors, teachers and conductors will also be spending time with their tour group and developing bonds with each other in and out of performances, as well as directly seeing their students perform in a way that may reveal more about their strengths and weaknesses as musicians. 

Experience New Cultures

Travelling to musically rich destinations allows students to experience completely different cultures and how those cultures’ stories and histories have influenced their music. Going on a performance tour can be very inspiring, as students and young musicians interact with cultural landmarks like Carnegie Hall and learn the history that was developed on its stage, or hear about Benny Goodman’s performance of ‘Sing Sing Sing with a Swing’ in 1938. 

Young musicians may also meet local musicians of a similar skill level to them, and can make lifelong friendships across the world, all while learning about cultural and musical differences to inspire them to study and develop into better artists. 

Inspires Confidence

Succeeding or even simply seeing a good reaction in person from an audience during a public performance can help a young musician gauge their current skill level and inspire confidence and courage in their performances.

Young musicians may also find they are becoming more confident simply from daily life during performance tours, as they will be completely responsible for themselves in a way that they may not have experienced before, at home with parents and guardians.