The studio's founder and primary music instructor, Spencer Burrows, is a serious advocate for the positive effects of music in people's lives. With a music education from Sonoma State University and certificate from Berklee College of Music in Boston, his career as a professional performer has taken him around the world and has made his own life richer and more exciting than he ever imagined.

His gift as a vocal-instrumentalist has put him onstage with many known well-known artists. His bands have shared the stage with internationally recognized bands including WAR, the Sons of Champlin, Los Lonely Boys, Ivan Nevile’s Dumpstaphunk, Bootsy Collins, and most recently has been on tour with Zero. His music career with Frobeck (2005-2018) and The Big Fit (2019) received multiple nominations, winning Best R&B Band from the Bohemian and Best Rock Band with Frobeck. Spencer Burrows is a prolific song-writer and has co-produced, with his band-partner Kris Dilbeck, many albums for his band Frobeck. In 2019, the newly-formed duo, Burrows & Dilbeck, released a 14 track album, All the Same, and in 2024 they released another multi-track album of soul, funk + rock, Other Shore.

His teaching career has given him the tremendous opportunity to guide group music and movement classes with kids from 6 months old and up. In his teachings, Spencer focuses on each student as their own artist, often encouraging song-writing and performing. His students have been accepted as music majors to Berklee College of Music, Musicians Institute, and UCLA just to name a few, but all, no matter their post high-school education and path, have reflected on their positive experience at The Great Burro Studios. His teaching covers the basic structure of music-theory, ear training, sight-reading, rhythm, pitch and improvisation - but also implements his philosophies of "honor, respect, communication, dedication, and FUN!"