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January 20, 2026 -- Trumpeter/composer and two-time GRAMMY nominee Ibrahim Maalouf - the French-Lebanese global sensation and prolific artist - will return to tour North America for the first time in two years. The early summer tour includes the Montreal, Toronto and Blue Note (NYC) Jazz Festivals in June and July. Maalouf will make his return to the Montreux Jazz Festival Miami on February 25, to participate in an evening of music celebrating Miles Davis’ 100th birthday. Maalouf dazzled at last year’s Montreux Miami festival, performing with a host of stars including Jon Batiste. General ticketing on sale for Maalouf’s summer tour opens this coming Friday, January 23, with artist pre-sale opening tomorrow, January 21.
Maalouf also recently announced his biggest headlining concert ever: he will celebrate 20 years of live concerts at the 40,000 capacity Paris La Defense arena in April of 2027 (the largest arena in all of Europe). He has previously headlined the Accor Arena in Paris three times. Full concert itinerary here: https://www.ibrahimmaalouf.com/en/accueil/concerts/
Today’s tour announcement arrives after an impactful past several months, and a busy 2026 to follow that will include the release of new music to be announced soon. Last summer, Maalouf was a featured performer at the prestigious BBC Proms. Captured at Royal Albert Hall in London, this recording of his song “Au Revoir” features Maalouf on trumpet with Jules Buckley conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers. “Au Revoir” was first released on Maalouf’s last studio album, Trumpets of Michel-Ange. His 18th album of all original music, it features Trombone Shorty as well as Endea Owens, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Matthieu Chedid and Golshifteh Farahan, was featured on NPR’s 1A and ranked #2 on World Music Central’s Top 20 albums of 2024 list.
Maalouf is a prolific artist, who has in recent years released a collaborative album with Angelique Kidjo (2022’s Queen of Sheba, which would earn Maalouf his first-ever GRAMMY nomination), and then Capacity To Love, a genre-bending epic featuring Sharon Stone, Tank & The Bangas, Pos from De La Soul, Gregory Porter and many others. “Todo Colores” from that album, featuring Cimafunk and Tank & the Bangas, would earn Maalouf his second GRAMMY nomination. Maalouf has recently been featured in the New Yorker, NPR’s All Things Considered, The World, People Magazine, SPIN, Rolling Stone, the New York Times, performed on The Late Show with Stephen Colbert, and hosted multiple intimate performance and Q&A events at the GRAMMY Museum.
About Ibrahim Maalouf
Born in war-torn Lebanon and raised in France, Ibrahim Maalouf attended the Conservatoire de Paris and earned a reputation as one of the modern era’s most promising young classical trumpeters with wins at a string of prestigious international competitions. Unsatisfied with the strictures of classical music, Maalouf began using his quarter tone trumpet to craft an innovative, cross-cultural sound, one that would eventually establish him as a household name in France, where he’s been dubbed a Knight of the National Order of Merit and a Knight of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Praised as a “virtuoso” by The New York Times, Maalouf has to date released sixteen critically acclaimed albums and performed in more than 40 countries; sold out arenas from Paris to Istanbul; been invited into the inner circle of legendary producer/composer Quincy Jones; raised millions for charitable causes; and collaborated with everyone from Wynton Marsalis and Jon Batiste to Josh Groban and Sting to A$AP Rocky and Angelique Kidjo.
In the last few years alone, Maalouf, has earned back-to-back GRAMMY nominations, composed the score for legendary French director Claude Lelouche’s latest film, served on juries at Cannes and the Deauville American Film Festival, performed at the Hollywood Bowl alongside Stevie Wonder, John Legend, and Jacob Collier, and played for an audience of six million in front of the Eiffel Tower on Bastille Day.
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