Soloists
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Karim Sulayman |
Tenor Karim Sulayman makes his Music of the Baroque début in these performances.
Among Mr. Sulayman's recent engagements were performances of Bach’s Cantata No. 110 with Helmuth Rilling at the International Bach Festival in Toronto as well as Mercure and the Athlete in Rameau’s Castor et Pollux with L’Opéra Francais de New York with Yves Abel conducting. He also sang Fauré’s La Bonne Chanson in a solo recital on the Music and Poetry series at the University of Toronto’s Walter Hall.
Mr. Sulayman made his début at the Aldeburgh Festival in Purcell’s The Fairy Queen under Harry Bicket. He created the role of Chiron in the world premiere of Jonathan Dawe’s Prometheus, commissioned by the New York Council for the Arts, Cygnus Ensemble, and the New York Baroque Dance Company at the Guggenheim Museum. He has sung with Chicago Opera Theater in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Death in Venice. Other opera credits include Tom Rakewell in The Rake’s Progress, the title role in Candide, Lucano in L’incoronazione di Poppea, The Magician in The Consul, and Lysander, Francis Flute, and Puck in A Midsummer Night’s Dream.
On the concert stage, Mr. Sulayman has been heard as a soloist in Orff's Carmina Burana, Stravinsky’s Les Noces, Pärt’s Passio, and Handel’s Messiah, as well as in works by Bach, Cavalieri, Carissimi, Monteverdi, Mozart, Debussy, Berlioz and Britten. He has collaborated with such renowned conductors as Raymond Leppard, Julius Rudel, Leonard Slatkin, David Effron, Robert Spano and the late Sir Georg Solti. An avid recitalist, he made his professional recital début in Chicago in 1997, and has since appeared throughout the world.