Meany Center: Israeli Chamber Project with Karim Sulayman

• Karim Sulayman, tenor

The Israeli Chamber Project is a dynamic ensemble of strings, winds, harp, and piano that brings together some of today's most distinguished musicians in concert. Based in Israel and New York, the group was created as a means for its members to give something back to the community where they began their musical education and to showcase Israeli culture through its music and musicians. For their Meany debut, they are joined by Grammy Award-winning tenor Karim Sulayman, an artist consistently praised for his sensitive and intelligent musicianship, riveting stage presence, and beautiful voice. This multifaceted program is a meditation on artistry across time, space, and borders.

"A band of world-class soloists that is not a muster of peacocks, but a hive mind in which egos dissolve and players think, breathe, and play as one."
— Time Out New York

About Meany Center for the Performing Arts

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About Karim Sulayman, tenor

Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman, a 2019 Grammy Award winner for Best Classical Solo Vocal, is a sophisticated and versatile artist consistently praised for his sensitive and intelligent musicianship, riveting stage presence, and beautiful voice. Sulayman earns acclaim for his thought-provoking programming and recording projects, and maintains a busy career on the world's opera and concert stages, in programs that range from often-heard classical favorites to new work, to audacious commissions and curatorial projects. In 2022, he debuted the widely acclaimed Unholy Wars, a program that recontextualizes Italian Renaissance music about the Crusades through an Arab-American lens, paired with a new work by American composer Mary Kouyoumdjian.