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Re: How much do top US players charge for private lessons on average?

Author: Paul Aviles
Date: 2025-08-07 19:20

I don't know if there is an average per se. I want to say that $40-$50 dollars per hour sounded good to me prior to tariffs and wild inflation (so wherever you want to adjust that number up from there).

Then you mention rates for great players. I think all the best players here are known as professors at esteemed institutions of higher learning and their fees are calculated into the (outrageous?) cost of university tuition.....for the most part.

I can tell you that Robert Marcellus would teach private lessons outside of his students at Northwestern University and they were paying around $500/hr and flying into town once or twice a month to have the privilege. That was in 1980s dollars by the way.

I think the best way to think about lessons is, "what do you want to accomplish with your studies?" One suggestion from a studio musician was to study with almost anyone in LA because that's were all the best studio jobs are. Another reliable technique is to study with someone in an orchestra you have your eye on. You may (MAY) wind up on the short list for subs if you're one of that person's best students.

Stuff like that has to be factored into the cost/benefit analysis.

............Paul Aviles

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