London Contemporary Piano School Teacher
Are you a piano teacher looking for a forward-thinking school and dedicated students who want to learn?
Do you have carefully catalogued different learning templates for different types of students and situations?
Do you love teaching the same repertoire to students in a range of different ways?
Have you consistently modified, improved, and updated your teaching techniques and explored new ways to help your students over the years?
Do you want to develop your teaching skills and add more improvisation and harmony/chord-based templates? Do you want to empower your students with more creative and/or holistic-based learning?
We are not just looking for piano teachers who make the difficult challenges of piano interesting and enjoyable; but also have measurable ways to ensure their students are progressing and moving towards their own goals, whatever they may be.
Do you hate sending lots of invoices to your private clients and chasing up late payments from them and doing all the admin? We deal with all that.
If this is you, we’d love you to apply for a position with us at the London Contemporary School of Piano.
Pay and conditions
Freelance / self-employed position. We pay above MU rates.
We are one of the few piano schools that pay in line with the Music Union rates (Our most successful coaches, who retain their students for years and teach consistently with us earn over 30k per annum self-employed, on approx. 4 days a week.)
Locations:
One-to-one teaching at our Baker Street studios in London.
Online lessons for our international students and online seminars.
This position is flexible, but you need to have availability of 3 or more days per week. Your schedule can be modified to integrate with your existing commitments and will build up over time. If you can be flexible that gives us more options with students.
On top of individual lessons, you will also have the opportunity to create and record YouTube content, conduct group online seminars and masterclasses (both paid).. We pay highly competitive rates for online seminars and masterclasses. We provide the technology, support and training for this if you would like it.
We pay highly competitive rates for online seminars and masterclasses, starting at £75 per hour.
Piano Teacher – the role
You need to be adaptable and able to do lots of different things – an all-rounder, stylistically and in ability, able to improvise and compose. You need to have a wide knowledge of contemporary music from Jazz, Rock, Pop, Folk, Blues, Punk.
Your responsibilities are:
- Preparing and conducting piano lessons with a range of students face to face at our Baker Street Studios and online
- Delivering “discovery sessions” where you give a lesson to a possible new student in the hope they will sign up for a series of lessons (you will get training and coaching in how to do this)
- Onboarding new students (you will get training and coaching in how to do this)
- Creating a summary of each lesson for the student and entering it into our system
- Retention of your students
- Keeping our admin team up to date and letting them know of changes to your schedule (for example if you are booked for a concert or are ill) so they can deal with the students and update the schedule as necessary
- Following our admin procedures
- Communicating with our administrative team on a regular basis about students’ progress, following our protocols
- Participating in our student events and our community be it offline or online
- Being available for meetings, training, and professional development.
Extra areas that will deliver a passive income for you
- Delivering online seminars
- Creating YouTube content (we do the recording and post everything for you)
- Creating online courses - you don’t have to have any experience; we will train you and do all the admin and posting of the courses
You will get help with all this and get training and support
The London Contemporary School of Piano
We are piano teachers and pianists (many with a performance background) who are passionate about helping our students and bringing them a wonderful educational and musical experience that will enable them to grow as musicians and students.
Most of our students are adults, many of whom have a wide range of learning styles. Many of them have not had success with traditional methods.
We generally do not focus on conventional exam-based curricula. We are axing away conventional tedious restrictive methodology and have had considerable success with our methods.
If your experience is mainly with children and you would like to work with adult students, we can help you make that transition.
Examples of our successes
Many of our students have recorded albums, given full length solo recitals and some of our younger students have gone on to study music beyond school. Students have composed their own pieces and recorded them, where before they didn’t use the piano.
We have students who have progressed from complete scratch to playing pieces like Chopin Waltzes in two years. Some of our students are music teachers looking to expand their own skills and their teaching abilities.
We have more than 300 active students with many more who are taking online group courses; most do not take lessons on a weekly basis because they are adults and need a more flexible approach. On average they have 1 – 2 lessons a month. Around 95% of our student base is adult learners at a variety of levels from beginner to intermediate and advanced, many returning to the piano after many years. The school is growing all the time.
30% of our students are international students who learn virtually with us.
If you are a piano teacher and interested, then please complete the application form:
https://forms.gle/ZK8aXXPLCcqujq8D6
Pay: £42.50 per hour
Work Location: In person
