Karim receives another GRAMMY® nomination!

Mary Kouyoumdjian and Royce Vavrek’s Adoration received a 2026 GRAMMY® Award Nomination for Best Opera Recording.

Karim Created the role of Sami in the opera based on Atom Egoyan’s film of the same name. He shares the nomination with composer/Producer Mary Kouyoumdjian, Soprano Miriam Khalil, Mezzo-soprano Naomi O’Connell, tenor Omar Najmi, Baritones Marc Kudisch and David Adam Moore, and conductor Alan Pierson

the recording was released on Bright Shiny Things, captured from Live Performances of the world premiere run at the Prototype Festival.

Karim triumphs as Pelléas

Karim scored huge success in his role debut as Pelléas in Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande. the new production at the Longborough Festival earned 5-star reviews from International Critics, singling out Karim’s “smooth richness” of tone and “alluring subtlety and bursts of rapture.”

Opera Canada hailed: “the Charismatic Lebanese-American tenor Karim Sulayman was a compelling, naively pure and open-hearted Pelléas… Sulayman’s voice is delicious: smooth, Elegant and atrractively coloured.”

while the Guardian lauded: “Karim Sulayman’s light-voiced Pelléas sounds almost improvised in its conversational fluency, but his tenor flowers in moments of passion.”

Chandos Records releases the chamber music of Reynaldo Hahn with the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective

Karim’s dear friends and frequent collaborators, the Kaleidoscope Chamber Collective have released an album of Reynaldo Hahn’s music, featuring new chamber arrangements of some of the composer’s most beautiful songs. The Arts Desk named Karim and Kaleidoscope’s performance of French Chamber Music (including these songs of Hahn) at wigmore Hall one of the best Concerts of 2022

Broken Branches earns massive critical acclaim and a GRAMMY® nomination!

Broken Branches was nominated for the GRAMMY® Award for Best Classical Solo Vocal Album. This is Karim’s second nomination in this category.

The album has enjoyed huge success, debuting at #1 on the UK Classical Charts, being named one of the Best Classical Music Albums of 2023 by the New York Times, and one of the Best albums of the 21st Century so far by BBC Radio 3!

Broken Branches released on Pentatone Records!

Karim’s third solo album, a collaboration with guitarist Sean Shibe, has been released on Pentatone Records.

Tenor Karim Sulayman and guitarist sean Shibe present Broken Branches, a conceptual album with music ranging from Dowland, Monteverdi, Britten, Rodrigo, Takemitsu, Harvey, and Chaker to traditional songs from the Middle East, scrutinizing the close cultural and musical ties between East and West. This musical exploration ties in with the artists’ personal experience of a dynamic, in-between identity, as they grew up in the West having ethnic roots in the East (Lebanon and Japan respectively). Broken Branches explores the wood of the guitar and its relatives, as well as the splintering of history known as diaspora.

Unholy Wars featured on NPR!

Karim’s orginal, multi-disciplinary production, Unholy Wars — a pasticcio of Italian baroque music centered around the Middle East and the Crusades and presented through a modern Arab lens — premiered at Spoleto Festival USA and was remounted at Opera Philadephia. It was met with ardent critical and audience acclaim.

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