music lessons in France

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Mulling over the possibility of moving to France.
If we were able to find work, it would be providing music lessons (brass). Or doing something completely different and new.
Can anyone shed some light on
Working in France?

Living in France (South West)?
What is likely to happen Brexit-wise?
Health care in France?

I currently speak very basic French, but am very willing to learn before we would go.
Thank you.

Don't wish to rain on your parade but nearly every town of more than a few hundred inhabitants in France has a conservatoire ( of varying quality), and your chances of getting anything other than a bit of casual work as a music teacher are slim.

They also use solfege not ABC etc so your theory knowledge will need to be relearned.

There's a few international schools too. It was the abundance of conservatoires that I thought we might pick some work up from.

We both have a strong background/experience/training.

You would need to learn the solfege system inside out and back to front and be confident singing all the music you teach in solfege.

I'm a musician (English but spent a year as an au pair to two girls learning at a conservatoire in France) and helped them with their practice and solfege homework.

Even after six months I still had to think a little bit when doing music in solfege with them whereas it would need to be 100% automatic to be teaching.

Instrument lessons themselves seem to all have to follow a strict scheme with regular assessment. The precision of playing expected was a surprise to me and the speed of progress too (think going from grade 2 level piano playing to grade 4 in the space of 8 months and this was every child in that year, not just the most able).

You would need to be very adaptable. It wouldn't just be a case of getting a job at a conservatoire and then continuing to teach lessons in the same way you do now.

Independent schools might be a better way forward.

You would be pretty unlikely to pick up casual hours from a conservatoire. There is a fair amount of music teaching outside that system through local clubs etc though.