This survey invites all current college-level music students to contribute with their experiences to this research project. The first stage of the project in 2023 (with 250 students in Norway) has already revealed interesting new insights and understanding of musicians' physical struggles, and the project is now expanding to include international students.
Even world-class musicians vary massively in how they experience playing and singing. One performer might find playing always to be effortless, and another might feel like they constantly struggle (despite both performing at the highest level). Some performers with assumed problems remain injury-free their whole lives, and others who seemed perfectly healthy end up with career-ending injuries.
This research investigates these discrepancies to better understand the whole spectrum of struggles found amongst musicians, aiming to clear up common misunderstandings and improve the conditions for improving musicians' abilities and injury-avoidance.
The questionnaire
The online survey takes around 15-25 minutes to complete, and after roughly a year has passed, an optional shorter follow-up questionnaire is sent out for those who want to continue.
As a thank you, participants that complete the questionnaire will be included in a lottery for universal gift cards of NOK 1000 each (≈ €90/95USD). See timeline below.
The survey is now temporarily closed but will open again sometime in 2025.
Answer the questionnaire here.
The study will likely continue another year (or more) for those who wish to continue. Each yearly follow-up questionnaire will include a new lottery round for the remaining participants.
