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Do you have any experience?
Hast du bereits Erfahrung?
Tell us your goals and we pair you with a SIRIUS-vetted piano teacher who fits them, so you can start playing online at a time that fits your week.
After the free trial lesson you agree on times directly with your teacher, and you can move a session whenever work, school or family gets in the way.
The SIRIUS Workspace holds your sheet music, the exercises your teacher assigns and the recordings of your sessions, so the days between lessons stay productive.
Do you want to learn piano and find a piano teacher in Minneapolis? We work with more than 150 SIRIUS-vetted music teachers and match you with the one who suits your goals, whether you are pressing your first keys or returning to an instrument you left behind years ago. Classical repertoire, pop songs, jazz voicings or the styles you grew up hearing: you decide what your lessons are about.
Our teachers help you build technique that lasts instead of habits you later have to unlearn. The SIRIUS platform was developed for online instrumental teaching, so sound quality stays clear enough to hear touch and pedaling, and you can join from anywhere in Minneapolis without installing extra software.
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SIRIUS gives you one-on-one piano lessons shaped around you, and everything from finding your teacher to payment runs through one platform. Adding an extra session before a recital or moving a lesson to a quieter week takes a few clicks in the booking tool. If you do not own an instrument yet, you can rent a keyboard through us and start right away.
In your lessons you learn to read both clefs, understand how chords are built, keep a steady pulse and use the sustain pedal so it clarifies rather than blurs your playing. Music theory arrives when it explains something under your hands, never as homework for its own sake.
Alongside your lessons you get the SIRIUS Workspace, a digital home for everything you are working on. Sheet music, fingering notes and the exercises your teacher assigns stay in one place, lessons can be summarized automatically so you can look up what you covered, and recordings of your sessions let you watch your own hands and check posture, tempo and dynamics between lessons.
You can also join monthly group sessions with other players, hear how they approach a piece and get feedback beyond your one-on-one lessons. For many students that mix of private coaching and community is what keeps daily practice going.
More hours = a better price per hour. Every plan: 45-min one-on-one lessons with vetted teachers.
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2 hours / month
$80.10 / month
$89.00 / month
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↓ You save $53.40 with a 6-month plan
For lasting progress.
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3 hours / month
$98.10 / month
$109.00 / month
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↓ You save $65.40 with a 6-month plan
Faster progress, more practice.
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4 hours / month
$116.10 / month
$129.00 / month
with a 6-month membership
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Do you have any experience?
Hast du bereits Erfahrung?
Many music students all over the world already trust SIRIUS.
My daughter was able to start singing lessons the very next day, and the sessions with Leonie are fantastic!
Anita
Mother of a singing student
David explained music theory to me in such a clear, vivid way. I’ve been at it for 4 months now and I love it…
Robert
Piano student
I always used to shy away from sheet music and music theory. Now, learning the piano is actually fun for me…
Christiane
Piano Student
I actually just wanted to learn a few campfire songs on the guitar, but I’ve been at it for over half a year now. Highly recommended!
Alex
Guitar student
Julianna is fantastic! The professional voice training has completely transformed my stage presence…
Beatrix
Vocal student
In Minneapolis, private piano lessons typically cost $40 to $90 per hour. Where a teacher lands in that range depends mostly on training - a conservatory degree or decades of performance experience sit at the top - and on lesson length, since 30- and 45-minute formats are common for kids. With SIRIUS you learn online at transparent rates, start with a free trial lesson, and never sign a long-term contract.
There's no single timeline, but the early wins come fast: within the first couple of months, most students are coordinating both hands on short pieces they actually enjoy playing. After a year of weekly lessons and steady practice, you'll have a small repertoire and solid note-reading. Bigger goals - jazz improvisation, advanced classical repertoire - are measured in years, and watching yourself close that distance is part of the fun.
An acoustic instrument is lovely to have but far from mandatory. Any digital model with full-size keys that sense how firmly you play will carry you comfortably through your first years, and it stays in tune through Minnesota's dry, furnace-heated winters. Nothing at home yet? Mention the rental option when booking your trial lesson, and find out whether piano sticks before investing.
Absolutely. SIRIUS technology was built for online music lessons: everything runs in your browser with excellent sound quality and no downloads, so your teacher catches every detail of your dynamics and pedal work. You take lessons from home anywhere in Minneapolis - no crossing town in a snowstorm - and sessions can be recorded to your Workspace, so you can rewatch tricky passages while you practice.
Piano rewards early starters and late starters alike. Once a child can focus through a short lesson and their hand spans a few keys - for many kids that point arrives in kindergarten or first grade - they're ready. Teens progress quickly because they practice with intent, and plenty of our most dedicated students began after fifty. The best age to start is honestly the one you're at now.
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Hast du bereits Erfahrung?
In Minneapolis, the piano hides in plain sight. On the side of the old Schmitt Music building downtown, an entire wall is painted with the score of Ravel's Gaspard de la nuit, one of the most demanding piano works ever written, and a young Prince posed in front of that mural before the world knew his name. Decades later, he closed his touring career with Piano & A Microphone: one man, one grand. If you've been considering piano lessons in Minneapolis, you live in a city that takes this instrument seriously, and with the SIRIUS Music School you can learn it online, right from your living room.
Few American cities put this much piano within a few blocks. At Orchestra Hall on Nicollet Mall, the Minnesota Orchestra brings world-class concert pianists through town all season. Up the same street, the Dakota has been a listening room for jazz piano since it moved downtown in 2003, with greats like Ahmad Jamal among the pianists who have played its stage. And the MacPhail Center for Music, teaching since 1907 and now serving more than 16,000 students, shows just how many people in the Twin Cities want to play.
So finding a piano teacher in Minneapolis has never been the hard part; finding the right one is. SIRIUS pairs you with the teacher whose strengths line up with your goals, your taste in music and your schedule, and because lessons happen online, distance stops mattering. Whether you're in Uptown, Northeast or the North Loop, your lesson starts the moment you open your laptop, which counts for a lot in a city where January can turn a short drive into an expedition.
Your teacher builds your technique from the ground up: healthy posture and hand position, notation across both clefs, the scales and chord shapes that make sense of the keyboard, steady rhythm, and pedaling that adds color instead of mud. You'll play real pieces from the very first lessons, not just exercises, and the repertoire follows your taste, whether that means Clementi and Chopin, film scores, pop songs or the first steps into jazz improvisation. As you advance, your teacher layers in ear training, sight-reading and music theory, so what you play starts to connect with what you hear.
From November well into March, furnaces across Minneapolis run nearly around the clock, and all that heating pulls moisture out of indoor air just as reliably as a Minnesota July pours it back in. An acoustic piano feels every bit of that cycle: wood shrinks and swells, tuning drifts, and technicians here often recommend a room humidifier plus an extra tuning each year. None of this should scare you off an upright, but it explains why many local beginners start digitally. A full-size digital piano whose keys push back like a real action holds its pitch through the driest February, keeps the peace with duplex neighbors thanks to headphones, and costs far less. Not ready to buy anything yet? SIRIUS offers a rental option, so your first months at the keys require no big commitment.
More than 150 vetted piano teachers are on the SIRIUS roster, and we do the sorting for you, so you're not gambling on a classifieds ad. Lessons run directly in your browser with excellent sound quality and nothing to install, and every session can be recorded to your personal Workspace, where your teacher also leaves exercises and materials, so nothing you figured out in one lesson is lost by the next.
Pricing is transparent, there's no long-term contract, and rescheduling takes a few clicks when a work trip or a snow day gets in the way. You start with a free trial lesson, meet your matched teacher and only then decide.
Once you're playing, this city keeps handing you reasons to practice. Hear a concerto soloist at Orchestra Hall and pay attention to their phrasing, or book a table at the Dakota and watch a jazz trio pianist comp behind a singer. Even First Avenue belongs on a pianist's map: the Minneapolis Sound that grew up around Prince leaned hard on keyboards and synths. Add student and faculty recitals at the University of Minnesota School of Music, and you have a full calendar of listening homework. Learn online at home, then go hear where the music lives.
Parents, take note: kids who start piano get a foundation that transfers to every other instrument, and a patient teacher turns those first lessons into a habit rather than a chore. SIRIUS teachers are used to keeping young beginners engaged on screen, with short, varied activities and pieces kids actually want to play.
Adults are just as welcome. Maybe you had lessons as a kid in the suburbs and want back in, or maybe you're starting from zero at forty; piano lessons for adults move at your pace and follow your goals, no recital pressure required.
And honestly, there may be no better place for it than Minneapolis, MN, where winter clears your calendar for practice better than any New Year's resolution. Book your free trial lesson, get matched with your teacher, and start playing this week, warm at home while the snow does its thing.
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