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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 New Orleans? 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 New Orleans 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.
Perfect to get started.
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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
with a 6-month membership
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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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↓ You save $77.40 with a 6-month plan
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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
Private piano lessons in New Orleans typically cost $40 to $90 per hour. What decides the rate is mostly how a teacher trained and how long they have been at it, plus the length of each session. With SIRIUS you learn online, pricing stays transparent, there is no long-term contract, and you begin with a free trial lesson - so you can meet your teacher before you commit to anything.
That depends on where you start and what you are aiming for. With a weekly lesson and short, regular practice sessions, new players usually manage recognizable melodies within their first months, then grow into fuller arrangements over the following year. Your teacher sets goals that fit your pace, so progress stays steady - and reaching an advanced level is a matter of years of enjoyable work, not weeks.
An acoustic piano is a joy, but no one needs one to begin. Any keyboard instrument with full-size keys is enough to build technique in your first months; a weighted action becomes more important as your touch develops. If you would rather not buy anything up front, SIRIUS offers a rental option, so you can start right away and decide later which instrument fits your home and budget.
Absolutely. Your lessons run right in the browser - nothing to install - with audio quality built for music teaching, so your teacher hears the detail in your touch and dynamics. You join from home anywhere in New Orleans, from the Marigny to Uptown, skip the drive across town, and can rewatch recordings of your sessions in the SIRIUS Workspace between lessons.
Piano suits an unusually wide age range. Many children are ready once they can focus through a short lesson and reach the keys comfortably, often in early elementary school. Teens progress quickly, and adults bring patience and motivation that easily offset a later start. There is no cutoff age - plenty of SIRIUS students take their very first lesson at forty, sixty, or beyond.
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Piano players talk about New Orleans the way painters talk about Paris. Jelly Roll Morton wrote down some of the earliest great jazz piano music here. Professor Longhair folded rumba figures into his left hand and made the whole city dance to it. Fats Domino carried that rolling sound onto the national charts, James Booker and Dr. John stretched it in wilder directions, and the line runs straight into the present through Jon Batiste. No American city has shaped how the instrument is played quite like this one.
SIRIUS Music School was built for learning an instrument in a city like this. We match you with an experienced teacher, your lessons happen online in your browser, and the first trial lesson is free — whether you are signing up your child or finally starting yourself.
Because nowhere else does the instrument have this kind of hometown history. Tipitina’s, the Uptown venue that opened in 1977, is literally named after a Professor Longhair song, and Longhair played the room until his death in 1980. On Frenchmen Street, Snug Harbor built its reputation on jazz — pianist Ellis Marsalis performed there regularly for years. And NOCCA, the city’s audition-only arts conservatory for high schoolers, trained Harry Connick Jr. and Jon Batiste before anyone outside Louisiana knew their names. Learning here means joining a living tradition, not studying a museum piece.
Practically, though, if you have been searching for a piano teacher in New Orleans, online lessons remove the usual obstacles: no crosstown drive, no fixed studio hours. SIRIUS finds the teacher whose experience meets your goals and your calendar, so lessons work around school pickups, service-industry shifts, and festival weekends instead of competing with them.
Your lessons build real pianistic foundations from day one: healthy posture and hand position, finger technique, fluency on the grand staff from the first exercises onward, scale and chord work, steady rhythm, and clean use of the sustain pedal. You will play actual pieces within the first weeks instead of drilling exercises for months, and beginner piano students get repertoire chosen to match their taste.
The style is your call — classical training, pop songs, or jazz. And if you want to dig into the New Orleans style itself, that rumba-tinged left hand and second-line syncopation can be broken down and practiced step by step, just like a Chopin prelude.
New Orleans has the highest average relative humidity of any major American city, and acoustic pianos feel it: soundboards swell, tuning drifts, keys can grow sluggish when the subtropical air settles in for the summer. If you own an acoustic instrument here, budget for regular tunings and some form of climate control — many local players keep a dehumidifier running or install a humidity-control system inside the piano itself.
A digital piano sidesteps the weather entirely, and it suits the city’s housing, too. In a shotgun double or a Marigny apartment with neighbors just beyond the wall, practicing with headphones at ten at night keeps the peace. For beginners who are not ready to buy, SIRIUS also has a rental option, so you can start playing first and choose your instrument later.
Instead of scrolling through directories, you tell us your goals and we sift our roster of 150-plus vetted professionals for the teacher we would book ourselves. Lessons run directly in the browser with sound quality designed for music teaching — no downloads, no plugins. Pricing is transparent, there is no long-term contract, and you start with a free trial lesson to make sure the match feels right.
Between sessions, your personal SIRIUS Workspace holds recordings of your lessons and your teacher’s materials in one place, so Tuesday’s breakthrough is still there when you sit down to practice on Friday.
Few cities give a learner this much live piano to listen to. Preservation Hall in the French Quarter presents traditional jazz night after night, Frenchmen Street packs a run of live-music rooms into a few blocks, and Tipitina’s still anchors Uptown. Hearing world-class players regularly changes how you practice — you start playing toward a sound you have actually stood next to. Learn online at home, then walk out the door and hear where the music can go.
Children get a structured, patient start: note reading and technique in small steps, early pieces that feel like wins, and a teacher who keeps parents in the loop about practice at home.
Piano lessons for adults are just as much our focus. Maybe you played as a kid and stopped, or you have always wanted to start — adult learners bring concentration and motivation that more than make up for a later beginning, and your teacher plans around a working life rather than a school schedule.
Wherever you are in New Orleans, LA — Uptown, Mid-City, the Marigny, or out by the lake — the piano tradition here has room for one more player. Book your free trial lesson and take the first step.
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