Adam Faruqi

Palestinian-American tenor Adam Faruqi (he/they) is known for his versatile and flexible lyric
voice. He sings in a variety of styles, from renaissance, baroque and classical to pop, rock and
folk. A longtime member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale and the LA Opera Chorus, Adam
has performed across the Southland and beyond with organizations such as LA Camerata,
Flagstaff Symphony Orchestra, The Industry Opera, Tonality, Street Symphony, PRISM, Musica
Transalpina, Chorosynthesis, the UCLA Early Music Ensemble, Pasadena Pro Musica,
Pasadena Opera, Concerto NoHo, Camerata Rus, and Angel City Opera, among others. He is a
founding member of early music ensemble Peasant Fylthe.

Since 2022, Adam has had the great privilege of touring internationally as a featured soloist with
the acclaimed production Music to Accompany a Departure--a fully staged adaptation of
Heinrich Schutz's seminal masterpiece Musikalische Exequien--with the LA Master Chorale,
choreographed and directed by Peter Sellars. His duet with Dermot Kiernan was described by
Nicholas Jones of San Francisco Classical Voice as "one of the most telling moments" of the
production.

Adam has performed on the soundtracks of over 20 Hollywood films, TV shows, and video
games, and has been a background vocalist on several popular albums, such as Mitski's The
Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We, and Father John Misty's Mahashmashana. In his free time,
Adam composes, arranges and records music in his home studio. Adam speaks seven languages
and holds a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from USC. He is passionate about
environmentalism, car-free urbanism and Palestinian liberation.