Team

With a combined 30+ years of educational experience, Zach and Sammy have dedicated their lives to building Miami’s music community.

ZACH LARMER, Founder

Zach is an internationally acclaimed jazz musician and educator. As a performer and composer, Zach has received three GRAMMY awards and embarked on numerous world tours. He has had the chance to work alongside artists such as Pat Metheny, John Scofield, and The Steve Miller Band. Zach is also the guitarist on American Dreamers: Voices of Hope and Freedom, an album that gained bi-partisan support in the United States House and Senate for its advocacy of citizenship for DACA recipients.

As a music educator over the last 13 years, Zach has focused on creating an infrastructure for musicians to support their growth as they transform into phenomenal artists.

SAMMY GONZALEZ, Founder

Sammy Gonzalez, a Miami born, internationally acclaimed musician and mentor recognized the staggering lack of music education in many of Miami’s underserved communities and created Young Musicians Unite as a response to this deficiency. Sammy has played nearly 1,000+ concerts, gone on 15 US tours, and landed spots at SXSW music festival and Van’s Warped Tour. As First Chair in the Miami Beach Classical Guitar Quintet, he toured the US and Japan, winning awards at both regional and national levels.

Sammy has over 20 years of experience working in music education and has taken YMU from 8 to 1300 students in 6 short years. Young Musicians Unite believes that every student in Miami-Dade deserves access to music education regardless of their socioeconomic background. Sammy also owns and operates The Bull Productions Recording Studio in Miami, where he produces, records, and mixes artists from all genres and backgrounds.

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