FOUNDING COHORT · STARTS MONDAY 1 MARCH 2027 · 45 PLACES
You are about to join the founding cohort.
We are delighted you are here. Forty-five piano teachers will go through this course together from 1 March, and finish it with the knowledge, the credential and the colleagues to teach at a higher level for the rest of their careers. Choose your option below. Your deposit is fully refundable for seven days, and if you would like to talk it through, reply to your welcome email and Anthony or Andrew Rumsey will call you.
A quick recap of what you are enrolling in
Ten weeks live online
Monday evenings, 6 to 8.30pm, live online for ten weeks from 1 March.
A two-day intensive in Sydney
Live, practical teaching on style, character and lifting a student’s performance from good to outstanding.
Six assessed projects
Lesson plans, case studies, recorded teaching, a journal and a teaching demonstration. Assessment fees are included.
Ten extra tutorials
The founding cohort’s bonus, valued at $1,500: a weekly tutorial for your assessments and your CTMusA or ATMusA submission.
CHOOSE YOUR OPTION
Fees and study options
All prices in Australian dollars, including GST.
Self-study
- Course guide and guides to all six assessments
- Course assessment fees included
- One year of MTA membership included
Live 10 Week Course
Enrol by 30 November. All paid by 31 March 2027.
- Ten weeks live online
- Two-day practical intensive
- 40 core hours, six assessed projects
- Course assessment fees included
- One year of MTA membership included
Live 10 Week Course
- Ten weeks live online
- Two-day practical intensive
- 40 core hours, six assessed projects
- Course assessment fees included
- One year of MTA membership included
Private Mentorship
- The full live 10 week course, plus the ten extra tutorials
- 40 one-on-one sessions with Anthony over a year
- Guided ATMusA submission, with recital preparation
Why this course is right for you
One course. Four kinds of teacher.
Established teacher
Your experience deserves recognition. The course builds on it with new approaches and a professional credential your parents and colleagues can see.
Young teacher
You know how to play. The course gives you the confidence and the skills to teach, and turns what you know into what your students learn.
Diploma candidate
A structured, supported route through the CTMusA or ATMusA, with most of the preparation done in the course and a tutorial every week to keep you moving.
Career changer
Your musicianship and love of the piano become a professional teaching practice, built on sound method and run the way you want it.
Whoever you are now, you finish the course a more confident, capable and professionally equipped piano teacher.
What you become part of
Piano teaching is solitary work. For ten weeks you are one of 45 teachers learning together: live classes, weekly group tutorials, and an online community where the cohort shares resources, compares assignments and talks through the problems of real students. The friendships and working partnerships formed in a founding cohort tend to outlast the course by decades.
How the fees compare
What it costs to learn to teach the piano in Australia
A Graduate Certificate of Music at a private institute: 26 weeks, with teaching offered as one elective.
A Graduate Diploma in Music at a university: one year, no Commonwealth supported places.
A Bachelor of Music: three to four years at $9,537 a year, with pedagogy rarely taught at all.
Piano Teacher Pedagogy and Practice: ten weeks, the requirements for MTA(NSW) Fellowship, assessment fees, a year of MTA membership and $1,500 of extra tutorials included.
A $5 an hour rise across 22 teaching hours a week pays the course back in about a year. After that it is income.
Comparison fees are 2026 indicative domestic fees published by the institutions.
Everything you need to become a Fellow of the Music Teachers’ Association of NSW
Any teacher can join MTA(NSW) as a member. Fellowship (FMTA) is the Association’s mark of a higher standard across performance, theory and pedagogy, and it is earned. Successful completion of the six course assessments, with proof of Grade 8 practical and Grade 5 theory or musicianship, meets the requirements for Fellowship; the Institute submits your application for you. Fellows come first in the MTA(NSW) teacher directory, and parents see a teacher whose work has been assessed against a published professional standard.
Why there is nothing to lose
Seven days to change your mind
Pay the deposit, read everything, talk to us. If it is not right, the deposit comes straight back.
A call if you want one
Reply to your welcome email with a good time and Anthony or Andrew Rumsey will call you to make sure the course fits your teaching and your timetable.
The plan with the smallest instalments
Enrol by 30 November and the payment plan is a $400 deposit and eight fortnightly payments of $562.50, all done by 31 March.
What happens next
Pay your deposit or your fee.
Your welcome email arrives within two working days; reply if you would like a call.
Course dates, Zoom details and the reading list arrive in February.
Enrolment terms
The deposit is fully refundable for seven days; after that the full fee is payable.
Questions?
Scholarships and bursaries
Scholarships may be offered by MTA(NSW) for travel and accommodation. You apply as part of your enrolment, and the Music Teachers' Association of NSW can answer questions about eligibility.
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Ready to enrol?
Your deposit is refundable for seven days, and the payment plan is open until 30 November.