Career
Schnitter played clarinet as a youth and switched to tenor sax at age 15. He played with Freddie Hubbard from 1979 to 1981 and also worked with Frank Foster, Charles Earland, and Groove Holmes. He recorded for Muse Records from 1976 to 1981.
Schnitter has been currently performing regularly at Smalls Jazz Club and Fat Cat in Manhattan, as well as touring in Europe.
He has been on faculty at The New School for Jazz and Contemporary Music in since 1994.