Beginner piano lessons in Singapore

The boring bit

Methodology, caveats and what we left out. Everything above rests on this.

There is no dot plot here: each business publishes one price for this item, so the ladders above already show every price.

Coverage

10 schools with a published price for the standard lesson, out of roughly 70 schools and studios we found in Singapore. That 70 is our own count from searching neighbourhood by neighbourhood, not an official figure, and there are surely more. We read the websites of 31 of them. The rest weren't read. Cristofori is counted separately: it publishes a 30-minute package price only.

Last verified

20 Sep 2026. Every price in the ladder was read off the school's own website or published price list on that date and checked against it. The outliers (the lowest, the highest and the derived LVL price) were read a second time before publishing. Three prices were read from screenshots or a document of the school's own page, because those pages couldn't be read automatically: King George's, Play By Ear and Cristofori. Dated snapshots are kept, and old data is never overwritten.

What "comparable enough" means here

We compare prices that are comparable enough for a fair reading, not strictly identical. The standard lesson is entry-level, one-to-one, 45 minutes, weekly, billed per month (about 4 lessons). Small differences are taken at face value, and the same rule is applied to every school. The line was drawn here:

• King George's rates page lists several tracks. We used its Integrated Curriculum (standard-faculty) track, which its FAQ says covers piano from age 4. Its rates page and FAQ give different registration fees (S$30 and S$50), so both are shown.
• Play By Ear's own pages disagree with each other: older pages show S$172 to S$196 for its kids' course, and the current junior course page shows S$288. We used the current one.
• Classical and pop courses both count, as long as a complete beginner can start on them. Play By Ear teaches a pop, improvisation-based syllabus.
• A "from" price is taken as published (Sonare).
• A per-lesson price is multiplied by 4 for a monthly figure (LVL), and labelled as derived. Per-lesson prices in the ladder are the monthly price divided by 4.
• GST is shown as each school states it. Only Yamaha states plainly that its price includes GST (Sonare's page says both), so prices aren't adjusted.
• Hogan Music Academy teaches only at students' homes, so its price includes the teacher travelling. It's in the ladder, tagged "in-home", because the standard doesn't specify where the lesson happens.
• Standard list prices only. Trials, promotions and one-off fees are noted separately.

What isn't compared, and why

• Prices not published (16 schools). 5 say to enquire for fees, and 11 show no fee amounts on the pages we checked (two of these are a solo teacher and a two-teacher studio).
• Pricing that doesn't line up (2 schools). One teacher-matching agency tiers its rates by teacher qualification and location. One school offers 60-minute pop lessons for teens and adults only.
• A prepaid package (1 school). Cristofori's Poppy Piano is priced as a 12-month package of 30-minute lessons, so it appears only in the 30-minute lesson ladder. Its flyer says licensed Cristofori centres may charge differently.
• Couldn't be read (1 school). One school's site blocks automated readers, so we couldn't read its fee page.
• Outside the scope (1 school). A diploma institution.
• Left out by type. Group lessons, solo private teachers and teacher-matching agencies aren't part of this comparison. Independent teachers are too many to cover: one directory says it lists more than 300.

Where the prices come from

Every price is published by the school itself, on its own site or price list. No delivery-app markups, third-party estimates, review-site guesses or blog mentions. Where a page shows a range or a "from" price, that's noted. Each school name in the ladder links to the page we read.

Independence

No payment, gift or sponsorship affects who is included, how they rank or how they are described.

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