Jazz on the Mountain

Pete Malinverni has a career with many facets: he’s led sixteen well-received recordings, including in solo, violin/piano duo, trio, quartet, quintet, choir and big band formats. For eighteen years he served as Minister of Music at the predominantly African-American Devoe Street Baptist Church in Brooklyn, NY and currently serves in that capacity at the Pound Ridge, NY Community Church and as Pianist/Conductor at the Westchester Reform Temple in Scarsdale, NY. He enjoys teaching, too, and is past-Chair of Jazz Studies at Purchase College (SUNY). Pete’s newest recording, “On the Town – Pete Malinverni Plays Leonard Bernstein”, featuring Ugonna Okegwo and Jeff Hamilton, was in the Top Ten for several weeks for Jazz radio airplay, reaching #2 for two weeks. Copies will be available at the shows.

Helen Sung is an award-winning jazz pianist and composer and a Guggenheim Fellow. Originally trained in classical piano and violin, she did her formative jazz studies at the Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz Performance (renamed the Herbie Hancock Institute in 2019). In addition to her own band and projects, she has performed with such luminaries as Clark Terry, Wayne Shorter, Ron Carter, Wynton Marsalis, Dee Dee Bridgewater, Regina Carter, Terri Lyne Carrington, Cecile McLorin Salvant, and the Mingus Big Band. She is currently on faculty at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music and Columbia University, where she also was the inaugural jazz artist-in-residence at its Mortimer B. Zuckerman Mind Brain Behavior Institute exploring intersections of jazz and neuroscience. Helen is a Steinway Artist.

Loren Schoenberg is Senior Scholar of The National Jazz Museum in Harlem. Mr. Schoenberg is currently on the faculty at The Juilliard School, and previously taught at Manhattan School of Music (graduate division), The New School, The Hartt School, and Brooklyn College. He has lectured at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, The White House, The New York Philharmonic, Stanford University, and The Aspen Institute. Mr. Schoenberg has conducted the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra (JLCO) as well as The Smithsonian Jazz Masterworks Orchestra, The American Jazz Orchestra and the WDR Jazz Orchestra in Koln, Germany. Mr. Schoenberg, a tenor saxophonist/pianist, has played and recorded with Benny Carter, Benny Goodman, Jimmy Heath, Eddie Durham, Marian McPartland, Clark Terry, John Lewis, Christian McBride, Buck Clayton, and was musical director for Bobby Short from 1997-2005. He also received two GRAMMY awards, for best album notes in 1994 and 2004, and played on GRAMMY-awarded albums as well. Mr. Schoenberg has been published widely (including the New York Times), and his book, The NPR Guide to Jazz , was released in 2003. He was hired by in 2001 to lead the effort to establish The National Jazz Museum in Harlem and served for over a decade as its Executive Director, creating many of its signal programs, and enlisted Christian McBride, Jonathan Batiste, Ken Burns, and Wynton Marsalis to the museum’s mission. A longtime radio host on WBGO-FM, WKCR-FM, and SIRIUS FM, he did occasional features on NPR, and is currently heard on KSDS-FM, San Diego.