There's a Place for You on Our Team

October 4, 2018 Jonah Cristall-Clarke

Our jobs for piano teachers in Toronto cover a wide range of situations

Our jobs for piano teachers with home teaching spaces or studios in and around Toronto 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 in Toronto 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 near downtown Toronto 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 in Toronto where we do not yet have other teachers - explore our map to see how you fit in with our current roster of piano teachers.

Although most of our students request to travel to a teacher’s location, we get a substantial number of requests for home visits in Toronto and throughout the GTA on an ongoing basis, and have jobs available for travelling piano teachers to meet this demand.
Jobs for piano teachers travelling to students’ homes in Toronto 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 in Toronto also offer opportunities to teach piano lessons at our downtown Toronto teaching studio, which can increase the number of students we can place with you.

Our jobs for classical piano teachers are perhaps more competitive, as there are more university-qualified classical piano teachers than in other styles. However, we also receive the greatest number of requests for classical piano teachers, so we always have jobs available to meet this demand.
We are proud to have a growing roster of world-class classical piano teachers, with stellar performance experience at the highest levels. However, it is worth mentioning that our business is focused on 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 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 piano lessons to individual students’ needs, learning styles, and musical interests.
Our biggest category of piano students is children and adult beginners (though we also have some very advanced classical piano students). We do not require that our classical piano teachers have played Carnegie Hall, and we love hearing from classical piano teachers who have great approaches to teaching beginner students.

We have many jobs available for jazz piano teachers, as there is generally a shortage of jazz piano teachers relative to the requests we receive for jazz piano lessons.
When considering jazz piano teachers for these jobs we look for an ability to improvise and teach through improvisation and a knowledge of jazz chord theory.
Familiarity with the ABRSM or Conservatory Canada jazz syllabus will give you an advantage, as many of the piano teachers we speak to do not have experience with this, and we do receive requests from students following the jazz piano syllabus.
Versatility and familiarity with a variety of musical genres also puts you at an advantage for our jazz piano teacher jobs, as we have requests from students interested in learning a wide range of jazz piano styles.

Requests for pop/rock piano teachers are becoming increasingly popular, and we have jobs available to meet this demand.
Our jobs for 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 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 piano teacher, the better.

Teaching 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 piano teachers who have teaching methods catered to young ages.
Piano lessons for very young children often involve general musicianship development. In your piano teacher job application we’d love to hear how you approach these types of piano lessons, whether it’s through musical games, singing, clapping, dancing, and/or piano-based activities.

We receive a large number of requests for piano lessons for adult beginners, from ages ranging from late teens and 20s to retirement age.
Our jobs teaching piano lessons to adults require applicants to demonstrate patience, adaptability, and a student-focused approach to teaching. Our adult 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.

These piano teaching jobs focus on 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 piano students but are interested in the field and have a thought-through method for tackling special needs piano teaching, we are happy to consider you for our jobs teaching piano to students with special needs.

These 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 students with the best possible piano teacher match, and will take into consideration the piano teacher’s professional focus, musical interests, and teaching approach.
When applying for our jobs teaching piano to advanced students be sure to tell us about your performing experience, and provide any details that could impress potential students and get them excited about taking piano lessons with you.