Ibrahim Maalouf

Born in war-torn Lebanon and raised in France, Ibrahim Maalouf has ded­i­cat­ed much of his trum­pet-play­ing career to bring­ing var­i­ous cul­tures, coun­tries and col­lab­o­ra­tors togeth­er. Part­ly inspired by his father, who invent­ed a unique quar­ter-tone trum­pet allow­ing Mid­dle East­ern and West­ern scales to be inter­wo­ven in a way pre­vi­ous­ly impos­si­ble, the musi­cian attend­ed the Con­ser­va­toire de Paris, where he earned his marks win­ning a series of pres­ti­gious inter­na­tion­al com­pe­ti­tions and became one of the world’s most promis­ing young clas­si­cal instru­men­tal­ists. Gift­ed with a vora­cious musi­cal appetite, he chose to rebel against the weighty restric­tions of clas­si­cal music, rather intrigued by jazz, soul, hip-hop, Mid­dle East­ern music and the lim­it­less pos­si­bil­i­ty of fus­ing them togeth­er. Hailed as a “vir­tu­oso” by the New York Times, the trum­peter has released 16 albums to date and played in over 40 coun­tries. Hav­ing won the César for Best Orig­i­nal Score in 2017 for Safy Nebbou’s In the Forests of Siberia, Ibrahim Maalouf recent­ly wrote the music for Claude Lelouch’s new fea­ture Finale­ment.