About Us
About Florian Schantz:
- Started playing trumpet at the NJ Workshop for the Arts with Dr. Ted Schlosberg (age 6)
- Played in Wilson School intermediate 5th grade band while in 2nd grade (age 7)
- Started playing in the NJWA Rockin’ Jazz Ensemble (age 8)
- Started the Florian Schantz Jazz Combo (age 9)
- Played his first professional paying gigs (age 10)
- Joins American Weldery and Steel Band, Sharpshooters Band of Northern NJ playing lead cornet (age 11)
- Played first gigs in NYC Jazz Clubs (age 11)
- Conducts first educational program (age 11)
- Receives the Louis Armstrong Award for trumpet (age 11)
- First professional performances in Europe (age 12)
- First multi-state library tour (age 13)
- Plays his 200th gig ((age 14)
- Plays his 300th gig (age 15)
- Plays his 500th gig (age 17)
- Graduated Magna cum Laude from Kean University BA Music (age 22)
- Plays his 1000th gig (age 23)
- In the Guinness Book of World Records– participated in the record setting conch shell blowing feat (largest conch shell group in the world!)
- Musical influences: Bix Beiderbecke, Wild Bill Davison, Louis Armstrong, Muggsy Spanier, Eddie Condon, Stan Getz, Robert Maxwell, Perez Prado, Ray Conniff, Mitch Miller, and many others