how much do you pay?

[Tash]

i was wondering, if the basic price of piano lessons is about the same around the world, i pay $AU60 for an hour, so is that similar to everyone else?

[galonia]

tash, two years ago I was paying AUD 65 an hour for private lessons from a teacher who teaches at the Sydney Conservatorium.  She hasn't told me what fees are for next year yet (I start lessons with her again in January).  I imagine the fees will have gone up since I last had lessons.

[calidris]

I pay € 11 an hour but it's kind of a special arrangement...  I used to go to a school of music where my teacher earned € 11 an hour.  He wanted to quit teaching there and one of his pupils asked him if he would come to her place to keep on teaching privately.  He said he was willing to but only if his other pupils could come there too. 

So, now I get my piano lessons on a great grand piano (instead of a crappy upright) and I pay less than what I paid at the school of music.  I can consider myself very lucky

[gkatele]

Here in Chicago, I pay $50 for an hour, and the teacher comes to the house. Now, granted from what I've read a lot of the teachers (and students) are FAR more advanced than I - I'm coming back after 30 years of no lessons - but for me, for now it's OK

Regards


George

[mound]

Here in Rochester NY, I'm paying US$30 per hour.

[Floristan]

I'm paying $110 per hour.  Sounds like a lot, but I was guided to this teacher after a series of auditions with another potential teacher who said I needed this level of training.  He's an old Julliard grad (class of 1958), had Egon Petri as a teacher himself, he plays around the Bay Area mostly, and was involved with Joseph Campbell in the human potential movement.  That's a lot of experience, so it costs a lot of bucks! 

Egon Petri, Hungarian pianist (a few recordings still exist), from a family of musicians, the Petris were personal friends of Brahms.  Egon remembers visiting Brahms when he was a child and going for walks in the woods with him and his parents as they talked music and life.  It's rare these days to find a teacher who can still trace his lineage as a pedagogue back to one of the greats, so that figures into the cost, too.  But most important, he's a phenomenal teacher from whom I am essentially relearning technique.  Virtually everything he is teaching me I have found written about in detail on this forum (by people I have come to respect highly).

I should add I see him every two weeks, not weekly, so the cost is not so bad.  As I work full time, I have only 1 hour a day to practice, so I need 2 weeks to prepare for a good lesson! 

[piano_learner]

I pay £13.75/40minutes

=$AUD34.69/40 minutes

=$AUD52/Hour

[zemos]

I pay 200 shekels (the money in israel) = about 45$ per hour and a half.

[sharon_f]

$85 USD for 1 hour for arguably one of the best teachers in the state.

[Tash]

wow so it does differ quite a bit, guess on the quality of your teacher and stuff. hmmm if i went and did a full music degree at uni i'd get free lessons...that'd be cool, apart from paying the whole uni fees and all...

[chopin_girl]

I go to a music high school, so I don't pay anything, except at the beginning of the year when every pupil pays a certain amount,,,,and that would be around US$ 10-12.
And I don't have the information on how much money do our teachers get per hour.

If you want private lessons, you wouldn't have to pay more then... let's say US$ 20-25....

[chozart]

wow.. heh, again, I see how fortunate I am

I have a wonderful - although rather strict and sometimes annoying - Russian piano teacher who charges me only $20 for my lessons, which are 2.5 - 3 hours long.
It sounds like they're long, but really.. time flies

[Tash]

oh i'd love 2.5-3 hrs cos 1hr is not nearly enough, and for $20, whatever country $ that is is freakin good!

[jason2711]

wow.. heh, again, I see how fortunate I am

I have a wonderful - although rather strict and sometimes annoying - Russian piano teacher who charges me only $20 for my lessons, which are 2.5 - 3 hours long.
It sounds like they're long, but really.. time flies

remind me to go to Russia to study....

[pianobabe56]

Dude.. I totally "beat" you all with a stick for cost that I'm paying for piano lessons- 80$ for 45 MINUTES! I wish I had longer lessons, but, hey. The teacher really is phenomenal. And that's plus the cost of any music she buys for me.

[buddy]

how is your lesson constructed?

[noelle]

I pay (...my parents pay) $75 per hour for private cello lessons.  I'll be resuming piano lessons again in about a week.  Same price, or a little less.
Music school in Boston, though.  Very professional, experienced, and educated teachers.

[lostinidlewonder]

i reckon the more money you pay the more work you will end up having to do. If that is not the case the teacher is taking u for a ride.

I have paid 500US an hour before (althought they would extend quite longer than that, once it was the entire day), but you would expect that fee from a respected concert musicians. I only had a few lessons. It included accompanying concert pianists(playing the second piano for concertos), travelling and studying all 24 etudes from chopin in 2 weeks and play them from memory not at concert level but oksih level, arrg I wont forget that (was 9+ hours a day in front of keys non stop every day). Fingers raw to the bone almost. I never thought i could hate piano.
now i look back on that price, what did it offer me? Probably a great deal like how the study of piano is about pain and frustration, and pressure! If you are not experiencing some form of that you are not progressing or pushing yourself at a fast enough rate.
I think i got a taste of what the real stuggling concert pianists feel like when they study. I heard of intense pianists studying every day for years and years non stop. I did it for only a few weeks and was dead! But i always wonder if it is healthy, because you start seeing changes in yourself when you are with your instrument so intensly. Mentally i didnt fare well because of the depression the Chopin Etudes caused while they where being learnt so vigorously and within a time requirement.
Still it answered my question if i wanted to be a professional musician, and at the end of those lessons, brusied and badly beaten up, i chose to take music as a career ehehe. Maybe musicians have to be a little masochistic eheh

[pianowelsh]

before i went to coll i was paying £30 per hour in the provinces with a senior music lecturer but that was 4 years ago my current teacher offered my a lesson over summer £65 phr but would have had to have 2 hr one and take train both ways so I declined - I'm a poor student!!!! In london apparently (not at home) he charges more