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An Inspiring City for Piano Lessons

Taking piano lessons with a great piano teacher is just one part of your adventure of music making and creative practise. Piano students in Toronto benefit from direct access to a wealth of classical piano recitals, jazz piano gigs, and shows by piano and keyboard teachers in a wide range of contemporary piano styles, which will work to enhance their learning. World-class piano concerts at Roy Thomson Hall, free classical piano recitals at the Richard Bradshaw Amphitheatre and Royal Conservatory of Music, jazz piano trios and open jams at the Rex Jazz & Blues Bar, and a plethora of pop and rock bands performing at Toronto venues every night, are just a few sources to feed the creative spirit. In Toronto, one has a winning combination with access to piano teachers who are the cream of the crop and a musical environment like no other.

Toronto’s Piano Teachers are Skilled Performers

There are few better places to find piano teachers than in Toronto, an international leader for piano education. Historically, some of the world’s finest piano players and teachers have called Toronto home, including classical pianist Glenn Gould and jazz pianist Oscar Peterson. Toronto continues to attract some of the world's best classical concert pianists, jazz pianists, and pop/rock artists. Piano teachers in Toronto are stellar pianists who have played at Toronto's world-class piano performance venues such as Roy Thomson and Massey Halls, Four Seasons Performing Arts Centre, the Rex Jazz and Blues Bar, Lee’s Palace, and many others. It is from this group of pianists that Toronto Piano Teachers filters out the best piano teachers through our rigorous application and interview process, to find the piano teachers with the most fun, thorough, and adaptable teaching methods, who are also professional musicians of the highest caliber.

Jazz Piano Teachers in Toronto

Our Piano Teachers offer jazz piano lessons that are as flexible as the definition of jazz, itself. Our jazz piano teachers are fluent in ragtime, blues, swing, bebop, hard bop, straight-ahead jazz, modal jazz, free jazz, third-stream, jazz-rock fusion, funk, and all other contemporary styles of music.

The Process of Learning Jazz Piano

What skills are required to play jazz piano? What should you expect to learn from jazz piano teachers?

Our Approach to Jazz Piano Lessons

Our Piano Teachers offers jazz piano lessons that focus on enjoyment and creativity above all, with a thorough, well-rounded, and fun approach.

Who Are the Ideal Jazz Piano Teachers?

The best jazz piano teachers are gigging jazz musicians, improvisers who play by ear, adaptable, and passionate about teaching.

Preparing for Jazz Piano Exams

Preparing for jazz piano exams adds an extra element of structure and concrete goals to your jazz piano lessons, and our jazz piano teachers can make sure that you pass with high marks!

Jazz Piano Improvisation And Creativity

Often cited as being the defining feature of jazz piano, improvisation is the practise of creating new, never before heard music, in the moment. Our Piano Teachers can show you how!

Playing Jazz Piano in a Band in Toronto

Our Piano Teachers offers jazz piano lessons that will arm you with the jazz piano skills necessary for playing in a group. Our jazz piano teachers have played in some of the best bands, and with some of the best jazz musicians.

Learning the Jazz Piano Repertoire

Jazz piano teachers teach you the most important songs in the jazz piano repertoire, and show you the tricks to developing a large repertoire.

Reading Jazz Piano Lead Sheets

Our Piano Teachers' jazz piano lessons will teach you to identify the flaws in a lead sheet, and interpret it with intelligence and style.

Jazz Piano Theory

Jazz piano theory is useful for improvising, reading lead sheets, composing, arranging, analyzing jazz music, and communicating with other musicians.

Classical Piano Teachers in Toronto

If it's the classical piano repertoire that inspires you, there's no better way to engage in classical music than through taking classical piano lessons with a great classical piano teacher.

The Process of Learning Classical Piano

Our Piano Teachers' classical piano lessons balance will and discipline with creativity and expression – at once engaging, challenging, and fun!

Our Approach to Classical Piano Lessons

Our Piano Teachers approaches classical piano lessons with the final goal in mind of expressing a message through your piano playing.

Who Is the Ideal Classical Piano Teacher?

Classical piano teachers have intensive training in classical piano, extensive performance careers, and refined approaches to teaching piano.

Preparing for Classical Piano Exams

Preparing for classical piano exams adds an element of structure and concrete goals to your piano lessons, and provides an excellent source of motivation.

Classical Piano, Musicality & Expression

Our Piano Teachers teach you to play classical piano music that tells a personal story with imagination, character, and personality.

Classical Piano Technique

Our Piano Teachers can help you develop a solid and polished classical piano technique, allowing you to freely express yourself through the piano.

Learning the Classical Piano Repertoire

Our Piano Teachers teach students about the history of classical piano music and encourage an active role in selecting their own repertoire.

Sight-reading Classical Piano Music

Sight-reading is a practical and useful skill and our classical piano teachers have some of the best methods for teaching you to sight-read classical piano music accurately and efficiently.

Classical Piano Aural Training

Music is sound, and the importance of listening and developing your ears cannot be overstated. Our Piano Teachers offer aural training in classical piano lessons.

Pop/Rock Piano Teachers in Toronto

Our Piano Teachers offer pop/rock piano lessons to teach you all of the skills necessary for surviving in the professional world of contemporary music. Our pop/rock piano teachers can teach you the skills you need, whatever your musical circumstances, interests, and aspirations.

The Process of Learning Pop/Rock Piano

The process of learning to play pop/rock piano begins with you. Give your pop/rock piano teacher a list of 5-10 songs representing your favourite music.

Our Approach to Pop/Rock Piano Lessons

Our Piano Teachers' approach to pop/rock piano lessons teaches you to play your favourite music on the piano, and nurtures your creativity.

Who Are the Ideal Pop/Rock Piano Teachers?

The best pop/rock piano teachers are session and studio pianists and keyboardists, singer/songwriters, composers, producers, and band members.

Preparing for Pop/Rock Piano Exams

Preparing for pop/rock piano exams adds an extra element of structure and concrete goals to your piano lessons, and our pop/rock piano teachers can make sure that you pass with high marks!

Pop/Rock Composition And Music Production

Our Piano Teachers offers pop/rock piano lessons that will foster your creativity and help you to achieve your dreams in music. Our pop/rock piano teachers have professional experience as songwriters, music producers, composers of electronic music, and more!

Playing Piano in Pop/Rock Bands in Toronto

To play pop/rock piano and keyboards in a band requires energy and restraint - having great skill and technical ability, and knowing how to use them.

Learning Pop/Rock Piano Songs

Our Piano Teachers' pop/rock piano lessons will teach you anything you want to learn! The songs you learn come straight from your music collection.

Reading Pop/Rock Piano Chord Charts And Sheet Music

Our pop/rock piano teachers can teach you to play by ear, read traditional piano notation, and read chord symbols, making sure that you establish a thorough foundation for your pop/rock piano playing.

Pop/Rock Piano Theory

Pop/rock piano theory comes in handy for every part of being a pop/rock pianist or keyboardist. Theory is taught through direct applications to songs.

Finding a Piano Teacher in Toronto, Made Easy

Many Torontonians are busy people. Long commutes, busy jobs, and bustling social activities make time a precious commodity in Toronto. Here at Toronto Piano Teachers we think it's amazing how much Torontonians value music and the arts, and we want to make it easier for piano students in Toronto to take piano lessons with the best possible piano teacher. We have brought together a great group of piano teachers in Toronto so that you don't have to spend hours searching Google and contacting countless piano teachers attempting to find one that meets your needs, is highly qualified and experienced, and has an approach to teaching that works for you. We have piano teachers for every location in Toronto, every style of music, and with varied and adaptable approaches to teaching piano.

About Our Piano Teachers in Toronto

A Stellar Roster of Piano Teachers in Toronto

Piano Teachers in Toronto to Meet Your Needs

Piano teachers to travel to your home, piano teachers offering lessons in studios, classical piano teachers, jazz piano teachers, pop/rock piano teachers, and piano teachers specialising in beginners' piano lessons - our Toronto branch consists of the most versatile and talented team of piano teachers you could imagine.

Qualified Piano Teachers in Toronto

All of our piano teachers in Toronto have a minimum qualification of a Bachelor degree in music, however many have achieved higher degree levels, and have several qualifications.

Here are a few real examples of qualifications that our piano teachers in Toronto carry:

Bachelor of Music, University of Toronto
Bachelor of Fine Arts in Music, York University
PhD in Music Performance, Goldsmiths College
Master of Music, Royal Academy of Music
Master of Music, Guildhall School of Music and Drama
Master of Music, Trinity Laban Conservatoire of Music and Dance
Master of Music, Royal Northern College of Music
Master of Music, Manhattan School of Music

Experienced Piano Teachers in Toronto

As well as being skilled educators, with well-designed and thorough approaches to teaching, we require our piano teachers in Toronto to be highly skilled and talented pianists.

Here are some real examples of music venues in Toronto and abroad where our piano teachers have performed: