Over the last few years, Jason has made his way across the gamut of the Rochester music scene, from chill background at country clubs like Oak Hill, Country Club of Rochester, Tennis Club of Rochester, Cobblestone Creek Country Club, and Midtown Athletic, to the bar scene at notable spots like Next Door, Jojo’s Bistro, Schooner’s Riverside Pub, and Aurora Brewing, up to more of the party scene at Marge’s Lakeside Inn, Record Archive, and Roar Nightclub. He’s also started to find his niche playing for the cocktail hour at weddings. 

In addition to his music, Jason also teaches Yoga and Pilates at Midtown Athletic, is an assisted stretch “Flexologist” at Stretch Lab in Victor, and personal trains clients out of his home studio. He started his group fitness and personal training journey 15 years ago working for Tracy Anderson Method out of NYC and LA where he worked with a number of notable clients including Liv Tyler, Molly Sims, Gwyneth Paltrow, and traveled with Robert Downey Jr. across the US and in London while he filmed Due Date and Sherlock Holmes. 

Jason began his musical career with the Pangaia Steel Band of Rochester, NY at the age of just 10. Playing alongside his father, Brian Stotz, of the Rochester Philharmonic Orchestra, he performed with Pangaia across across western New York including Lilac Fest, Corn Hill Fest, Fairport Canal Days, opening for Santana at CMAC, and playing several steel drum concertos with the Rochester Philharmonic.

Throughout high school, music was Jason’s primary focus. In addition to playing professionally with the steel band, he also did all of the school ensembles, playing percussion for concert and marching band, and drum set for jazz band and pit orchestra. He also made his way through a variety of athletics such as hockey, soccer, tennis, cross country, gymnastics, and karate. Towards the end of high school, he found a good marriage of his love for music and athletics through color guard and started to take dance his senior year. After years of thinking he would to go to college for music, almost on a whim, Jason auditioned for the dance department at the University at Buffalo and was accepted. He received his BFA from UB and danced professionally for over a decade with a number of contemporary ballet companies, and then found his way to the shadow dance company, Catapult Entertainment, with whom he made it to the top 12 of America’s Got Talent season 8. Jason went on to tour with Catapult as both a dancer and rehearsal director through the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East.

Throughout his dance career, he still kept up with music in between tours, sitting in with a variety of ensembles including playing drum set in pit orchestras for a number of musicals (Seussical, Footloose, Bye Bye Birdie, Guys and Dolls), drum set for Center Stage Pops Orchestra of Rochester, NY, performing steel drum, keys and vocals with bands Next-Level Reggae Band of North Bellport, NY, Monkey in a Bottle of Rochester, NY, and sitting in with Dirty Blanket of Canandaigua, NY, and was a featured performer on the Viking Star, Viking Cruise Lines’ first ocean liner. During early quarantine he was featured on the first episode of “Some Good News” by John Krasinski playing the them from “The Office” as the credits roll.

Jason is deeply grateful that he has found so many ways to allow his hobbies and passions to become his livelihood. He is honored by every opportunity he has to bring music into peoples’ lives for their special events.