Saxophone Lessons

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Steven Salcedo

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  • Saxophone - tenor, alto, baritone

  • Sightreading & Music Theory

  • Keyboarding & Ear Training

Saxophonist Steven Salcedo has been an active member of the New York City music scene since 2011. His current projects include Salcedo’s Latin Soul and Brooklyn Sugar Company.

Salcedo has shared the stage and/or recorded with Miley Cyrus, Dolly Parton, David Byrne, Brandi Carlile, Steven Van Zandt, Darlene Love, Victor Victor, Fletcher, A Great Big World, among many others. His performance credits include The 64th Annual GRAMMY Awards (Miley Cyrus), Saturday Night Live (Miley Cyrus), Miley’s New Year’s Eve Party (2021 & 2022), HBO’s Stevie Van Zandt: Disciple (2024), The Tonight Show (Dove Cameron), BBC’s Later... with Jools Holland (Gedeon Luke), and ABC’s Live with Kelly & Ryan (A Great Big World). He has also served as musical director on film shoots for MTV and Disney/Pixar.

Most recently, Salcedo was named a 2024 Armstrong Now Artist-in-Residence at the Louis Armstrong House Museum and Archives (Queens, NY). Through this residency, he collaborated with the institution to explore the Armstrong archives, creating new interdisciplinary works that fuse music, dance, spoken word, and visual art.

Salcedo currently serves on faculty at his alma mater, Lagond Music School (Westchester, NY) as well as at Purchase College Conservatory of Music (Purchase, NY) as a lecturer in the Music & Technology Department, His students have gone on to attend top conservatories and universities across North America.

In addition, Salcedo designed and implemented the curriculum for The Mosaic Project (2021–present) and CuBop to Hip Hop (2023–present) at the Kupferberg Center for the Arts at Queens College, reaching over 20,000 students in the greater Queens community.

Steven's fee schedule is based upon the lesson length of 30, 45, or 60 minutes and ranges from $75 - $125.

**Salcedo’s Latin Soul is a powerhouse band representing the physical embodiment of New York City’s multicultural life. Inspired by everything from Fania All-Stars, Cortijo y su Combo and Irakere to James Brown, Santana and WAR, the band’s mission is to pay tribute to these icons and more, while pushing the culture’s influence into the 21st century. Much like how boogaloo was born from the marriage of Cha Cha Cha and R&B, Salcedo’s vision is to combine Salsa, Bomba and Timba (to name a few) with Funk, Rock, and Hip Hop. Simply put - Salcedo wants the world to celebrate LATIN SOUL.