Jazz
Romania
Lucian Ban
![Listen to Violin Song (Live at the Baroque Hall of the Temisoara Museum of Art in Romania on November 7, 2018) [Live] by Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri, see lyrics, music video & more!](/mkimage/image/thumb/Music125/v4/4e/7a/d2/4e7ad2bf-44c6-70ce-8529-dcfe5fc85011/1580ITunes.png/375x375bb.webp "Listen to Violin Song (Live at the Baroque Hall of the Temisoara Museum of Art in Romania on November 7, 2018) [Live] by Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri, see lyrics, music video & more!")
![Listen to The Athenaeum Concert (Recorded Live at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Romania on June 25, 2024) [Live] by Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri](https://is1-ssl.mzstatic.com/image/thumb/Music211/v4/1d/4c/23/1d4c2301-e037-ac1c-14fc-7f575cef4fc2/1767iTunes.png/1380x1380bb.webp "Listen to The Athenaeum Concert (Recorded Live at the Romanian Athenaeum in Bucharest, Romania on June 25, 2024) [Live] by Lucian Ban, John Surman & Mat Maneri")
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About Lucian Ban
Lucian Ban is a Romanian-born pianist who draws upon European classical music, Transylvanian folk, and post-bop jazz. Based in New York, his U.S. debut, Somethin' Holy, appeared in 2002. He released the celebrated Playground with his Asymmetry ensemble in 2006, and The Romanian-American Jazz Suite with saxophonist Sam Newsome. Ban and violist Mat Maneri initially worked as a duo on Transylvanian Concert for ECM in 2013. 2016 saw the issue of Songs from Afar by Lucian Ban's Elevation. In 2020, Ban, John Surman, and Maneri issued Transylvanian Folk Songs. Ban followed with the solo piano Ways of Disappearing in 2023. In 2024, he and Maneri released the live Transylvanian Dance on ECM. In September 2025, Ban, Maneri and Surman released two albums on the same day: the studio effort Cantica Profana, and the live Athenaeum Concert.
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