Pianist Lucian Ban with “Ways of Disappearing” for Jazz Poetry Month at Alphabet City

Lucian will also collaborate and improvise with poets Yuriy Tarnawsky (Ukraine), Dmitry Bykov (Russia), Jorge Olivera Castillo (Cuba), and Marcelo Hernandez Castillo (Mexico).

Ban has become known for his amalgamations of Transylvanian folk with improvisation, for his combining of 20th Century European classical music with jazz, and for his pursuit of a modern chamber jazz ideal. 

Lucian Ban

Lucian Ban (Romania, piano) 

Lucian Ban was raised in a small village in northwest Transylvania. He studied composition at the Bucharest Music Academy while simultaneously leading his own jazz groups. He moved to New York in 1999 and has been leading several projects creating music that reinvents the jazz idiom and collaborating with some of today’s most celebrated jazz musicians. His compositions are performed and recorded by several ensembles and he has released 19 albums under his name for labels such as ECM, Sunnyside, Clean Feed, CIMP, Jazzaway.

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