Pomiędzy projektem a strategią – zarządzanie wydarzeniami muzycznymi w instytucji artystycznej

Abstract

The Polish Sinfonia Iuventus Orchestra (POSI) is a unique artistic music institution with an educational profile. Its main goal is to prepare young musicians – graduates of master studies – to enter the labour market well-geared both artistically and organizationally. This paper describes the specific nature of working at POSI, highlights its main objectives and tasks, illustrates difficulties that arise in fulfilling the facility’s mission with the project-based work style (prevailing in such institutions), and portrays a profile of an artist/musician educated at POSI, based on the conducted quantitative and qualitative research. The purpose of this paper is to present a musical institution in which the organization of artistic work should be carried out at the highest possible level, being a source of great satisfaction to all external and internal stakeholders. Unfortunately, as it turns out, concentrating solely on projects and forgetting about the reasons why the institution was established in the first place can be a major threat. Constant care for the implementation of the adopted strategies with the focus only on individual projects and their goals is the challenge the musical institutions of culture are facing now. As indicated by Heraclitus of Ephesus, the only constant thing in life is change.