Piano Technician

Bard College seeks a Piano Technician to execute tuning, regulation, voicing, repairs, action refurbishing, preventative maintenance, and other duties in order to maintain Bard College's piano inventory at an optimal level.

Bard has a piano fleet of approximately 100 pianos, which supports a wide range of educational programs and professional performing arts organizations, including The Bard Conservatory of Music, Bard Undergraduate Music Program, Bard SummerScape, Bard Music Festival. This position is supervised directly by the director of the Bard Conservatory of Music and works closely with the executive directors of the Fisher Center for the Performing Arts and the Bard Music Festival.

Duties include:

• Maintaining the pianos to all practice and performance standards to meet the requirements of faculty, students, and guest artists.
• Creating and maintaining an individualized service rotation schedule based upon the needs of the instruments, the faculty, and the students, fulfilling special requests as needed.
• Preparing concert hall pianos for all performances on a regular schedule.
• Maintaining a database of maintenance records for each piano.
• Communicating with upper administration about the college's long-term piano maintenance needs. Scheduling and overseeing piano work done by outside contractors for the purposes of repair, rebuilding, refinishing, and supplemental tuning.
• Doing basic harpsichord tuning and maintenance (or overseeing that work to be done by outside contractors.)
• Overseeing and scheduling the moving of pianos.
• Engaging in continuing professional training and education in order to maintain and develop skills.