Ben Stivers

Ben Stivers is a Brooklyn-based organist, pianist and keyboardist who leads the Ben Stivers Organ Trio, a group he founded after moving to New York in 2001. He works across jazz, blues, rock, pop and Latin pop, and his sideman credits run from the Bee Gees and Barry Gibb to Gloria Estefan, Ricky Martin and Matchbox Twenty. Born in Indiana in 1968 and raised in Las Vegas by two professional musicians, he studied Studio Music and Jazz at the University of Miami's Frost School of Music from 1986 under Vince Maggio, then took a full-time jazz residency in Mallorca beginning in 1998. He was a member of the Chris Botti Band in 2017 and 2018, and joined Lyle Lovett and His Large Band for a US tour in 2019.