Rio Clemente Trio at Community Arts Center

Known as the “Bishop of Jazz,” pianist Rio Clemente has a knack for captivating audiences, and has received standing ovations from Birdland to Europe to Carnegie Hall. Beginning his career with studies at the Julliard School of Music, Rio went on to play at the JVC Jazz Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. He has entertained audiences at the United Nations, performed coast-to-coast for senators, governors, mayors, and other dignitaries, and appeared at major jazz clubs all over the US and abroad. Last December he was invited to play at the White House. Clemente has recorded extensively, composed and arranged a wide variety of pieces, and served as music director for the Generations of Jazz Program of the New Jersey Jazz Society. About his feature CD on Richard Rodgers, Linda Rodgers raved “Rio plays my father's music better than anyone I ever heard.” He has been named among New Jersey Monthly Magazine’s “Top 40 New Jerseyans,” and the New Jersey Jazz Society’s “Musician of the Year.”...

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Known as the “Bishop of Jazz,” pianist Rio Clemente has a knack for captivating audiences, and has received standing ovations from Birdland to Europe to Carnegie Hall. Beginning his career with studies at the Julliard School of Music, Rio went on to play at the JVC Jazz Festival, the Newport Jazz Festival, Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center's Avery Fisher Hall. He has entertained audiences at the United Nations, performed coast-to-coast for senators, governors, mayors, and other dignitaries, and appeared at major jazz clubs all over the US and abroad. Last December he was invited to play at the White House. Clemente has recorded extensively, composed and arranged a wide variety of pieces, and served as music director for the Generations of Jazz Program of the New Jersey Jazz Society. About his feature CD on Richard Rodgers, Linda Rodgers raved “Rio plays my father's music better than anyone I ever heard.” He has been named among New Jersey Monthly Magazine’s “Top 40 New Jerseyans,” and the New Jersey Jazz Society’s “Musician of the Year.”

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