Janet Ritterman stated in her speech about New Perspectives on music education that it was absolutely necessary to make sure that access to music offers opportunities for lifelong purposeful involvement and not just occasional treats.

Aage Hagen was reflecting on young peoples’ access to music in terms of conservatoire education. He claimed that it was important to better include contemporary music into the curriculum to be able to keep up with the developments in the music world surrounding us.

Peter Röbke noted in his presentation about music schools in Austria that music schools need a lifelong perspective. In his opinion a music school should be a school "which transforms itself more and more into a centre of music education competence for all generations, all styles, all levels of excellence".