What Are We Worth?

About the project

Classical music training is expensive. Instruments, lessons, travel, masterclasses — the costs are rarely spoken about, but they determine who gets to enter, who gets to stay, and who is forced to leave.

We are born into different realities, and classical music students are rarely taught how money works in this field.

What Are We Worth? makes that silence audible.

Six students from Stella Vorarlberg Private University of Music, Christopher Njapha, Inés Mariné Aguado, Jasmin Mönkkönen, Kenichi Kawabata, María Fernanda Castillo-Pinilla, and Sahori Miwa, have joined forces to make visible the financial and social realities of their artistic journey. Through interviews, anonymised audio testimonies and a multimedia performance, we open a space where money, privilege, and belonging can be spoken about openly.

On 22 October 2026 we gather at Palais Liechtenstein in Feldkirch for an evening that brings together concert, sound installation, and moderated dialogue. The project is funded by Impulse Privatstiftung. It is realised in cooperation with MICA – Music Austria. The project is supervised by Dr. Martina Taubenberger.

Through a sound installation based on personal audio statements, a music-theatrical concert performance, lectures and documentary materials, the project creates a space for open exchange.