Our jobs for piano teachers cover a wide range of situations

Jobs for online piano teachers:

• Our jobs for online piano teachers with high-quality online piano teaching setups offer the flexibility to work from home or another suitable location, and to schedule online piano lessons with students in a wide range of timezones, to fill teaching hours when local students may not generally be available.

• To qualify for a job teaching online piano lessons, your online piano teaching setup must be approved as suitable for our online piano students. Your camera angle for online piano teaching must allow you to show both your face (when speaking with your students) and your hands at the piano/keyboard (when demonstrating for students), as follows:

  • This can either be a flexible/moveable camera setup for two different views as needed, or a single view, as long as both of these elements are possible.

  • For demonstrating, the camera angle must not be a reverse-image (i.e. not from behind the keyboard) and must allow the student to see your hands at the keys clearly, so it can't be a low angle below the level of the keyboard.

  • The camera should not be hand held / shaking, and should be positioned securely in place.

  • You can see an example of one possible online piano teaching setup below (although there are many other kinds of setups that we can approve as suitable for teaching online piano lessons, so this is just one example).

Jobs for in-person piano teachers teaching from home:

• Our jobs for in-person piano teachers with home teaching spaces or studios offer a slight advantage, as the majority of our students request to travel to their teacher’s location.

• To qualify for a job teaching piano lessons at your home or studio, your teaching space must be approved as suitable for our students. It should be a clean, tidy, well-organised area, free from distraction, and must not be in your bedroom. Studios may be approved over a Skype video call, by a pre-recorded video, or in-person, as the case may be.

• Location is a factor for home-based piano teaching jobs; centrally-located teaching spaces and those in areas with higher-income households tend to be at an advantage. It can also help if you are located in an area where we do not yet have other teachers - explore our map to see how you fit in with our current roster of piano teachers.

Jobs for in-person piano teachers teaching at students’ homes:

• Although most of our in-person piano students request to travel to a teacher’s location, we get a substantial number of requests for home visits on an ongoing basis, and have jobs available for travelling piano teachers to meet this demand.

• Jobs for piano teachers travelling to students’ homes are often geared more towards teaching families with children, though we also have some adult students taking piano lessons in their homes.

• Travel radius is an important factor for these piano teaching jobs. The further you are willing to travel, the more potential students we will have for you, however the greater the travel time the less you will be earning per hour. It is important for you to balance these considerations when applying for our jobs for travelling piano teachers, as you will be setting your own travel radius.

• Our jobs for travelling piano teachers also offer opportunities to teach piano lessons at third-party teaching studios, which we rent by the hour, and can increase the number of students we can place with you.

Jobs for online classical piano teachers:

• Our jobs for online classical piano teachers are perhaps more competitive, as there are more university-qualified online classical piano teachers than in other styles. However, we also receive the greatest number of requests for online classical piano teachers, so we always have jobs available to meet this demand.

• We are proud to have a growing roster of world-class online classical piano teachers, with stellar performance experience at the highest levels. However, it is worth mentioning that our business is focused on online piano education, and we have rejected job applications from top-tier classical pianists when there have been hints of overconfidence, unfriendliness, or any apparent lack of adaptability to students’ needs. We encourage our online piano teachers to design and follow their own teaching methods based on their philosophies around learning, provided that there is a focus on fun, enjoyment, and adapting online piano lessons to individual students’ needs, learning styles, and musical interests.

• Our biggest category of online piano students is children and adult beginners (though we also have some very advanced online classical piano students). We do not require that our online classical piano teachers have played Carnegie Hall, and we love hearing from online classical piano teachers who have great approaches to teaching beginner students.

Jobs for online jazz piano teachers:

• We have many jobs available for online jazz piano teachers, as there is generally a shortage of online jazz piano teachers relative to the requests we receive for online jazz piano lessons.

• When considering online jazz piano teachers for these jobs we look for an ability to improvise and teach through improvisation and a knowledge of jazz chord theory.

• If applying for an online jazz piano teaching job in the UK or Canada, familiarity with the ABRSM or Conservatory Canada jazz syllabus will give you an advantage, as many of the online piano teachers we speak to do not have experience with this, and we do receive requests from online piano students following the jazz piano syllabus.

• Versatility and familiarity with a variety of musical genres also puts you at an advantage for our online jazz piano teacher jobs, as we have requests from students interested in learning a wide range of jazz piano styles.

Jobs for online pop/rock piano teachers:

• Requests for online pop/rock piano teachers are becoming increasingly popular, and we have jobs available to meet this demand.

• Our jobs for online pop/rock piano teachers require an ability to teach through chords, by ear, and improvisation, as well as through notated sheet music.

• Familiarity with electronic music production, composing/songwriting, singing and accompanying your vocals, and playing with bands are a few elements that give your online pop/rock piano teaching job application an advantage.

• We use the term “pop/rock” to cover a wide range of styles from oldies to electronic music, hip-hop, folk, R&B, gospel, contemporary christian, modern pop/rock, and other contemporary musical genres. The more versatility you have as a pop/rock pianist and online piano teacher, the better.

Jobs teaching online piano lessons to young children:

• Teaching online piano lessons to children under age 6 is a specialised skill. We receive requests from parents with children as young as 2, and always have jobs for online piano teachers who have teaching methods catered to young ages.

• Online piano lessons for very young children often involve general musicianship development. In your online piano teacher job application we’d love to hear how you approach these types of online piano lessons, whether it’s through musical games, singing, clapping, dancing, and/or piano-based activities.

Jobs teaching online piano lessons to adult beginners:

• We receive a large number of requests for online piano lessons for adult beginners, from ages ranging from late teens and 20s to retirement age.

• Our jobs teaching online piano lessons to adults require applicants to demonstrate patience, adaptability, and a student-focused approach to teaching. Our adult online piano students are generally looking for a well-organised structure for their learning, but also flexibility, as they may be balancing their piano playing with work, family, travel, and other life activities and commitments. 

Jobs teaching online piano lessons to students with special needs:

• These online piano teaching jobs focus on online piano lessons for children and adults with ADHD, autism, and other learning challenges, which are frequent requests.

• Experience teaching special needs and training or experience in music therapy are assets for these jobs.

• If you don’t have experience or training in working with special needs online piano students but are interested in the field and have a thought-through method for tackling special needs online piano teaching, we are happy to consider you for our jobs teaching online piano lessons to students with special needs. 

Jobs teaching online piano lessons to advanced-level professional pianists:

• These online piano teaching jobs are reserved for our top classical concert pianists, professional gigging jazz pianists, and pop/rock performing and recording artists.

• We work hard to place our advanced online piano students with the best possible online piano teacher match, and will take into consideration the online piano teacher’s professional focus, musical interests, and teaching approach.

• When applying for our jobs teaching online piano lessons to advanced students be sure to tell us about your performing experience, and provide any details that could impress potential online piano students and get them excited about taking online piano lessons with you.