about
Riverview Jazz began as a grassroots concert at the Riverview Farmers Market in the Jersey City Heights in 2013. In just a few short years Riverview Jazz was producing or partnering in over 100 free-to-the-public performances a year in Hudson County, including the Jersey City Jazz Festival, the largest outdoor jazz festival in the NYC-tri state area. Riverview Jazz programming focuses mainly on straight-ahead jazz, Latin jazz, and those sounds left-of-center. No mainstream pop acts at our jazz festivals, dig?
The goal is simple - great music to the people in a fun environment. A party where everyone is welcome and the music is happening. As Ornette says "Friends and Neighbors, that's where it's at!"
team
Bryan Beninghove
Executive Director & Founder
Margo Parks
Business & Festival Manager
Martin Schmid
Operations Manager/
Event Coordinator
Kathy Cacicedo
Creative Director
Stephen Gritzan
Digital Marketing Manager
Karen Poliski
Festival Production Coordinator
Dave Zimmerman
Festival Office Manager
team
board
President
Kevin Gosa
Co-founder & Principal, Nonprofit Velocity
Vice President
Dane Calcagni
Director of Development, RSI
Secretary
Rachel Ryll
Quality & Regulatory Director, Americas; CEO, The Statuary
Treasurer
Samantha Green
Samantha Green CPA
Trustees
Bryan Beninghove
Director /Founder Riverview Jazz/Musician
Tim Karcher
Partner at Proskauer Rose LLP
Margo Parks
Parks Arts
Barry Richards
B. Rich Consulting
Kate Silver
Executive VP/Managing Broker at
Corcoran Sawyer Smith
Kern Weissman
CIO at Select Express & Logistics
Advisory Board
Seth Abramson
Rabbit Moon Productions
Doug Beavers
Musician, Founder Circle 9 Records
Dr. Linda Beninghove
Library Director, Stevens Institute of Technology
Ted Chubb
Musician; VP Jazz Education & Partnerships, Jaxx House Kids: Artistic Director, The Statuary
Melina Garcia
Founder UCMP
Mario "B" Gonzalez
Founder Salsa Fever on2, actor;
Rutgers University Professor
Cary Chevat
Sponsor Resources
James Kaznosky
Director of Environmental Health & Safety, Baruch College
Walter Parks
Musician, Event Producer
Sawyer Smith
Owner/Founder Corcoran Sawyer Smith
