Ibrahim Maalouf (Arabic: ابراهيم معلوف, pronounced [ʔɪbraːˈhiːm maʕˈluːf]; born 5 November 1980) is a French-Lebanese trumpeter, producer, arranger, and composer.
As a teenager Maalouf accompanied his father in a duo throughout Europe and the Middle East, playing a baroque repertoire by Tomaso Giovanni Albinoni, Henry Purcell, and Antonio Vivaldi.
He recorded with Matthieu Chedid, Vincent Delerm, and Arthur H. He became a teacher at CNR d'Aubervilliers-La Courneuve and gave master classes in the U.S. His first solo album was Diasporas (2007) on his label.
He has worked with Sting, Salif Keita, Amadou & Mariam, Lhasa de Sela, Marcel Khalife, Vanessa Paradis, Juliette Gréco, and Archie Shepp.
Maalouf passed an open competition at the CNR de Paris (regional Conservatory) and joined the class of Gérard Boulanger for a two-year training course.
In November 2008, Maalouf played in the opera Welcome to the Voice at the Chatelet Theatre in Paris composed by Steve Nieve and directed by Muriel Teodori.
That same year, Ibrahim Maalouf was invited to the musical inauguration of the Louvre Abu Dhabi Museum and also appeared on the jury of the Miss Lebanon election, live on LBC (Lebanese television).
After playing alongside Sting at the reopening of the Bataclan in Paris, he then paid tribute to Tignous, one of the Charlie Hebdo cartoonists who was brutally murdered, at his funeral.
He also honored the memory of the victims of the Paris terrorist attacks of fall 2015 in a national tribute, composing a hymn sung by young French star Louane.
The album includes artists such as Erick The Architect, leader of the Brooklyn-based rap group Flatbush Zombies, Tank and the Bangas, Cimafunk, Shelea Frazier, a protégé of Quincy Jones, the young Alemeda recently signed to TDE, Kendrick Lamar's label, D Smoke, winner of " Rhythm + Flow " the Netflix rap contest, the English singer JP Cooper, but also artists more identified in France such as the Californian crooner Gregory Porter, Pos of De La Soul; the mythical group of New York rap, the French star Matthieu Chédid, or the Franco-Brazilian Flavia Coelho.