Brass

Rob Stattel, Trombone, and Euphonium, a native of the Washington, DC area, currently resides in Yonkers, NY, and performs and teaches throughout the tri-state area. His experiences include a stint with the 81st US Army Band, and a national tour with “In The Mood”, a 1940s musical review.  Locally, he has performed with the Yonkers Philharmonic, the Westchester Broadway Theater, the Bensen/Scott Orchestra, the Westchester Swing Band, the Virgil Scott Orchestra, the Monarch Brass Quintet and the Bottom Line Tuba Quartet.  Rob has degrees from the University of Michigan and the University of Maryland and has studied with Brian Bowman (Air Force Band) and Abe Torchinsky (Philadelphia Orchestra).

David Sneider is a jazz trumpet player, composer and teacher who is a graduate of the Juilliard School. He is the First place winner of both the 2021 Carmine Caruso Competition and the 2019 National Trumpet Competition. The son of a jazz trumpet player and opera singer, Sneider has been immersed in the New York music scene his whole life. He is a frequent sideman for Dom Salvador, Ulysses Owens and Larry Goldings. Other notable musicians he has shared the stage with include Jerry Weldon, Grant Stewart and Evan Sherman. In 2023, David and his father, John Sneider, co-released an album on Cellar Live entitled “Sneid Remarks”, which features their original compositions.