Audition to Study Piano with Mario Ajero
Check out this awesome opportunity that Mario Ajero is offering to anyone who is interested in studying piano with him! Mario is Assistant Professor of Piano Pedagogy and Coordinator of Class Piano at Stephen F. Austin State University and also hosts The Piano Podcast. He is one of the leading experts in the field of music technology today, so this is an incredible opportunity!
You can watch his whole video presentation for the details, but I’ll just point out that the deadline for submitting your video audition is September 1, 2008. Mario is also operating with a user-determined fee structure. He’s not setting a price for his lessons, but is leaving it up to each student to pay whatever they are willing for the privilege of studying with him. He is open to teaching students of all levels and lists the specific things he is looking for from each audition in his video presentation.
I think this would be the perfect opportunity for a teacher who is interested in furthering his or her own piano skills, but doesn’t have the ability or availability to study with a teacher locally. These lessons take place right in your own home and I suspect there is a great deal of flexibility in scheduling as well. If I wasn’t already studying with an excellent teacher I would be recording my audition video right now instead of typing this post! 
July 31st, 2008 at 8:06 am
Natalie,
Thanks for the plug on your fantastic blog! The deadline is tentative and based on how many people actually respond. I might be overestimating my popularity and have only 1 potential student out of this!
Either way, this is more experimental in nature. If this succeeds, perhaps it might encourage more piano teachers to explore offering online piano lessons to supplement their current traditional studio teaching.
July 31st, 2008 at 5:14 pm
You’re welcome, Mario! I know I, for one, am very interested in learning from your experiment. I’ve had people ask me before about giving Internet-based piano lessons, but I’ve never explored what it would take to make it work. I hope you do get some takers and keep us all posted on how it goes!