Mark Morganelli

Executive Director, Jazz Forum ArtsTrumpeter, Flugelhornist & Jazz Producer

Mark Morganelli ran his first Jazz Forum loft in 1979-1983, presenting or hosting recordings, films and broadcasts by Dizzy Gillespie, Art Blakey, Wynton Marsalis, Carmen McRae, Max Roach and others.

Mark established Jazz Forum Arts in 1985 as a non-profit arts presenter with the free outdoor summer Riverside Park Arts Festival, and produced the Sunnyside and Berkshire Jazz Festivals and NYC area concerts at Carnegie Hall, Jazz at Lincoln Center, NJPAC, Tarrytown Music Hall, and the Town Hall.

Mark produced 60+ Candid Records CDs, many when he was NYC’s Birdland Music Coordinator. When Mark and his family moved to Westchester in 1991, he inaugurated 22 years at Tarrytown’s Jazz at the Music Hall, including Betty Carter, Sonny Rollins, Dave Brubeck, Chick Corea, David Sanborn and the Count Basie Orchestra. He led the Bucknell Jazz and Rock Ensemble during college.

As a trumpeter/flugelhornist, Mark recorded five albums, most recently Brasil! and has toured Italy and performed at the Montreux, JVC/NY and Saratoga Jazz Festivals.

In 2017, Mark and his wife, Ellen Prior, reopened the Jazz Forum in Tarrytown under Jazz Forum Arts, presenting Eliane Elias, Paquito D’Rivera, Bill Charlap, Catherine Russell and many other artists.