Marco Rivera

Director - Orlando Youth Salsa Band

Marco Rivera is an up and coming and highly sought after trumpet player. He currently resides in Florida playing all over town in a variety of different types of music ranging from jazz, rock, salsa, funk etc. Marco is a recent graduate of the University of Central Florida in trumpet performance and studied with John Almeida, Dan Miller and Luis Araya. Currently Marco plays at the Walt Disney World resorts in the Mainstreet Philharmonic and is a trumpet player at Mangos World Famous International Cafe. Marco also performs with a variety of salsa bands, funk bands, jazz bands etc. All around florida. Marco has performed and recorded with a variety of Musicians including Veronica Swift, John Allred, Gary Smulyan, and Harry Allen, Herman Olivera, La Makina, and many others