A smiling man with a beard, wearing a light gray shirt, dark pants, and brown shoes, sitting at an outdoor cafe table with a cup of coffee on a sunny street.

Marcus Ellery has spent the past sixteen years showing that music teaching can be far more than a side gig — it can be a thriving, fulfilling career.

In his twenties, he built a six-figure studio from the ground up. Since then, he’s taught over six hundred students and mentored dozens of instructors who now run successful studios of their own. Marcus approaches his work with calm focus and genuine drive, blending heart and strategy in everything he teaches. His mission is simple: to make teaching music a meaningful, sustainable career that feeds both the heart and the bank account.

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  • To teach is to learn twice.

    Joseph Joubert

  • We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act but a habit.

    Aristotle

  • What we learn with pleasure we never forget.

    Alfred Mercier

  • Be steady and well-ordered in your life, so that you can be fierce and original in your work.

    Gustave Flaubert

  • Art is not what you see, but what you make others see.

    Edgar Degas

It’s time to write your own success story.