2-Time GRAMMY Nominee Ibrahim Maalouf Shares “Au Revoir” From BBC Proms Featuring The BBC Orchestra, Conducted By Jules Buckley 

“A Crowning Achievement, A Homage To His Ancestry” - Songlines

“You’ve Probably Never Heard A Trumpeter Like Maalouf” - WNYC 

“For more than 15 years, Ibrahim Maalouf has been breaking new ground with his appetite for all kinds of sounds” - The World

September 26, 2025 - - Trumpeter/composer and two-time GRAMMY nominee Ibrahim Maalouf - the French-Lebanese global sensation and prolific artist - has released a new recording today.  It is a live version of his song “Au Revoir,” recorded as part of his participation in the prestigious BBC Proms.  Captured at Royal Albert Hall in London this past July, it features Maalouf on trumpet with Jules Buckley conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra and BBC Singers.  Nearly 9 minutes in length, it showcases Maalouf’s widely celebrated singular style and lyrical playing as well as the bond he creates with the audience, here leading a sold-out Royal Albert Hall crowd to sing along with him for a most dramatic conclusion to the piece.  “Au Revoir” was first released on Maalouf’s late fall 2024 studio album Trumpets of Michel-Ange.  

Listen to “Au Revoir” here: https://idol-io.ffm.to/aurevoir-4  

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.  La Defense is the largest arena in all of Europe.  He has previously headlined the Accor Arena in Paris three times, and will continue touring internationally over the next year, including shows to perform the music of Trumpets of Michel-Ange as well as 10th anniversary concerts celebrating his album Kalthoum.  Full concert itinerary here: https://www.ibrahimmaalouf.com/en/accueil/concerts/ 

Trumpets of Michel-Ange is Maalouf’s 18th album of all-original music and was recorded in a series of raw, freewheeling sessions captured live without any edits or overdubs. Trumpets of Michel Ange is more than just an album; it’s also the name of his wide-ranging new initiative aimed at making the quarter tone trumpet accessible to players around the world through a line of instruments, lessons, and recordings. This trumpet is what has given Maalouf such a distinct sound and an appetite for smashing together the sounds of so many cultures.  Special guests on the album include Trombone Shorty as well as Endea Owens, Toumani Diabaté, Sidiki Diabaté, Matthieu Chedid and Golshifteh Farahani. Maalouf discussed the album on NPR’s 1A, and it was 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, he 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.