Class action

For centuries music lessons looked the same: teacher and student meeting face to face, usually once a week. Even if the quality of content varied, the classroom setting remained a constant. Coronavirus broke the mould. The ongoing pandemic obliged conservatoire students and their professors to join a mass unplanned experiment last term, one set to continue across the academic year and beyond. Early results suggest that online tuition is more than a lockdown stopgap. Chances are that e-learning programmes will become standard for top young instrumentalists and singers, a virtual