Meet the Instructors
Music and Mastery brings in-home music lessons to Orange County and Los Angeles families. Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Lake Forest, Tustin, Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, East Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, Pacific Palisades, and Malibu. We teach guitar, piano, voice, bass, ukulele, drums, and music production for kids and adults.
What ties our roster together: every instructor passes a DOJ and FBI background check via LiveScan before they ever knock on a student's door, and every one is a working musician who genuinely loves passing it on. We're picky on purpose. The difference between a teacher who can play and one who just teaches is the difference between a kid who stays with music and one who quits.
Jonny Dolan
Music and Mastery is Mountain City Music Co. under a newer name. I founded Mountain City in 2022 and built its in-home, background-checked instruction model there; Music and Mastery brings that same model to Los Angeles and Orange County. For now, lessons here are taught by me, driving out from the Inland Empire while I build the local instructor roster.
Some background. I've spent 11 years teaching music both as a full-time public-school classroom teacher and as a private instructor. Collectively I've taught thousands of K-12 and adult students. I hold a Bachelor of Arts in Choral Music Education and a California teaching credential. Outside the classroom I've performed as a studio guitarist in Los Angeles and as a professional choir singer. I specialize in rock guitar but teach across all styles: folk, pop, jazz, classical, whatever a student wants to play.
If you book during this launch window, you're learning from the founder. As Music and Mastery's OC instructor roster grows over the coming months, every new hire will go through the same DOJ and FBI background check and audition process I built for MCMC over the last three years.
More Instructors Coming Soon
Music and Mastery is actively recruiting instructors for Orange County (Irvine, Newport Beach, Costa Mesa, Lake Forest, Tustin) and Los Angeles (Beverly Hills, West Hollywood, East Hollywood, Burbank, Pasadena, Pacific Palisades, Malibu). Every instructor we bring on is DOJ and FBI background-checked via LiveScan. Book a free lesson and we'll match you with the right teacher as we onboard them.
What to Expect From Your Lessons
Every Music and Mastery lesson is 1-on-1 in your home, scheduled around your family's calendar. Most students start with a free first lesson so you can confirm the instructor is the right fit before committing. We match students to instructors based on instrument, age, experience level, and (when it matters) personality. If the match isn't working after that first lesson, we'll re-match you at no charge.
First-lesson goal: figure out what you actually want to play. Whether that's the riff from your favorite song, your kid's school recital piece, or just learning to read music from scratch, we build the lesson plan from there. No boring exercises. No filler. We focus on real songs from day one because that's what keeps students excited to come back.
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