Making music has great potential for self-fulfilment, resilience and well-being throughout life. In order for these positive effects to unfold, it is essential to have a health-promoting way of making music that teaches competent handling of movement and body awareness, healthy practice, performance competence and self-efficacy in instrumental lessons from the very beginning. According to the literature, up to three quarters of children and young people who play an instrument suffer from playing-related health problems, with a significantly increased risk for those who prepare for music studies. Surveys at music universities have shown for years that a quarter of students begin their music studies with playing-related physical and psychological problems. The findings emphasize the importance of training and further education for music educators in prevention and health promotion. The integration of the subject Music Physiology & Musician’s Medicine into the curricula of bachelor’s and master’s degree programmes in music studies, which can now be found at most music conservatories in European countries as well as in the USA and Australia, can lead to better training of instrumental and singing teachers in the medium term and enable healthy music-making in the instrumental training of children and adolescents from the very beginning.