This February, New York gets a first listen to one of Europe’s most exciting new jazz voices. AMPHITRIO, a boundary-pushing trio from Romania, makes its U.S. debut with a four-date mini-tour that moves from downtown Manhattan to the Midwest and back—plugging Eastern European imagination directly into the American jazz bloodstream.
Presented with the support of RCI New York as part of the Jazz Jamboree concert series, the tour highlights a band that treats jazz not as a tradition to preserve, but as a language in constant motion. Formed in 2020, Amphitrio—Andrei Petrache (piano & composition), Mike Alex (double bass), and Philip Goron (percussion)—blend contemporary jazz with Nordic atmospheres, Balkan rhythms, flashes of rock energy, and subtle electronic color. The result is music that feels cinematic and intimate at once: exploratory, groove-driven, and emotionally direct.
The tour kicks off February 6 at Nublu, the legendary Lower East Side venue long regarded as a launchpad for global, forward-thinking jazz. From there, Amphitrio heads to Constellation in Chicago on February 8, one of the Midwest’s most vital experimental music spaces, where the trio will be joined by special guest vocalist Ana Everling, adding a striking new vocal layer to their sound. On February 12, the band stops at The Vault Pub in Bloomington, Indiana, before closing the tour with an intimate final performance on February 13 at RCI New York.
Amphitrio arrives stateside with serious momentum. Their 2024 album Timelines and the international tour What Freedom Sounds Like took them across major jazz capitals—from Berlin and Vienna to Paris and Baku—with showcase appearances at jazzahead! Bremen, the world’s leading jazz industry platform, and festival invitations including JazzFest Budapest.
More than a run of concerts, Amphitrio’s U.S. debut is a moment of cultural exchange—placing Romanian jazz firmly within the global conversation and introducing American audiences to a sound that is rooted, cosmopolitan, and unmistakably forward-looking. If you’re curious about where contemporary jazz is headed next, this is a band worth catching now.
Concert dates & RSVPs links:
• February 6, 2026 —Nublu, New York
• February 8, 2026 —Constellation, Chicago (feat. Ana Everling)
• February 12, 2026 —The Vault Pub, Bloomington
• February 13, 2026 — Romanian Cultural Institute, New York
