The purpose of this article is to highlight and interpret music pedagogical visions among piano teachers in the Swedish Music and Arts College. The teachers’ were given autonomy and the freedom to design the piano lesson based on their personal values and opinions. The music and culture school’s local political goals formulated the goals for this interpretation. When compared with the basic or secondary school, it is on a completely different level of control. National directives have a completely different legitimacy and impact on the educational activities.
We understood that the music and culture school’s activities, in many ways, are a result of the individual teacher’s beliefs and ideas about the mission as a music teacher. These are based in a music respective educational ethos, and together, they form a so called music education philosophy. The article is based on a qualitative research in which the core consists of four interviews with different piano teachers.

The interviews provided insight into how much an educational philosophy and music integrate to form a music education philosophy. The concepts such as aesthetics, cultural heritage, democracy and diversity have become central. Teachers also had keen opinions about giving students a solid piano foundation (e.g. Through an advanced piano lesson) and build students’ self-esteem in teaching. The interviews also confirmed to some extent a comprehensive categorization of content versus student-centered teachers.
In the case of music teachers specifically, the music and the teacher training had an impact on the prospective teacher’s music education philosophy. Many teachers had training through an informal learning (online piano lessons) in pre-formations such as music high school and college. Many had ideological approach to the concepts of musicality and what is good music. The music college that traditionally stood for music teacher education becomes a platform for realization of an educational approach.