Autumn 2025
Hans Lüdemann - Aly Keita - Christian Thomé
TRIO IVOIRE
„Ressurection“ - 25 years AfroEuroJazz
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Concert Tour in September
New album in October
New program
Hans Lüdemann - piano, virtual piano/electronics
Aly Keita - Balaphon
Christian Thomé - drums, percussion
TRIO IVOIRE has been around for 25 years! Who would have predicted this when pianist Hans Lüdemann first met balafon virtuoso
Aly Keita in Abidjan, Côte d'Ivoire, during a solo tour of West Africa with the Goethe-Institut in 1999? They hit it off right away, and
shortly afterwards the two founded TRIO IVOIRE in Cologne with British drummer Steve Argüelles as the third member of the trio –
Christian Thomé joined the trio in 2013. Not only is the trio's instrumentation of piano, balafon, drums, and electronics unique,
but so is the music, which draws its tension from the contrasts and vast distances between the musicians' personal roots.
Both are probably reasons why TRIO IVOIRE has such lasting power and why the collaboration has remained exciting to this day.
To celebrate this, the trio is presenting a completely new program on their new album “Resurrection,” which will be released in fall
2025 on INTUITION.
The official release date of the album has been postponed to October, but the musicians will already have the new album
with them on their concert tour in September. The next tour is planned for spring.
Concert tour in September:
Sept 1, 2025 D – Berlin, Zigzag
Sept 3, 2025 D – München, Unterfahrt
Sept 4, 2025 A – Wien, Porgy & Bess
Sept 5, 2025 D – Dresden, Tonne
Realese 10.10.2025 at
INTUITION
Theo Plath - Hans Lüdemann „Tiefblau“
Theo Plath, bassoon - Hans Lüdemann, piano
When a classical bassoonist and a jazz pianist play together as a duo, can it work? It helps if the bassoonist
has a special interest in the intersections between classical music, new music, and jazz—and if the jazz pianist
is classically trained and also an accomplished composer. Both of these things apply to the duo of Theo Plath
and Hans Lüdemann. Their program “Tiefblau” (Deep Blue) delves into the musical borderlands between classical
music and jazz, composition and improvisation.
Hans Lüdemann composed the title piece especially for Theo Plath, and it will be premiered at the duo's concert
premiere at LOFT Köln on November 9. The program also includes pieces by Roger Hanschel, Manfred Schoof,
Daniel Schnyder, and Jürg Baur.
Theo Plath is principal bassoonist of the Frankfurt Radio Symphony Orchestra, professor at the Frankfurt
Musikhochschule, and a sought-after and very active chamber musician.
Into the depths, out into the blue!
KONZERTE:
November 9, 2025 D - Köln, LOFT
November 16, 2025 D - Düsseldorf, Palais Wittgenstein
February 2025
„Collisione Mondiale“
- Songs from inner and outer space -
Hans Lüdemann & Atlantic 7
Nick Dunston, Mark Feldman, Aly Keita
Tamara Lukasheva, Christian Thomé, Bobby Zankel

This new project brings together the musicians of the Trio Ivoire with three American musicians - Mark Feldman, Bobby Zankel and Nick Dunston - and singer Tamara Lukasheva for a concert premiere on March 1. It is the culmination of a two week project at Swarthmore College involving students and faculty and including workshops and rehearsals with the College Jazz Ensemble.
concert live stream - March 1, 8 pm EST (2 am MET/MEZ)
(live from Lang Concert Hall, Swarthmore College, PA - USA)
concert live stream