Fareed Haque

Guitar virtuoso Fareed Haque enjoys a career that spans the spectrum of musical styles. Moving easily between jazz and classical guitar, Fareed's versatility has created a demand for him as a sideman with prominent jazz and classical artists including Paquito D'Rivera, Arturo Sandoval, Nigel Kennedy, Edgar Meyer, Bob James, Dave Holland, Sting, Javon Jackson and most recently, Joe Zawinul.

Haque has been featured on Ben Sidran's New Visions, Michelob Presents Sunday Night with David Sanborn on NBC, his own Lonesome Pines Special for PBS, and on BET cable jazz channel. Fareed has twice been selected Talent Deserving Wider Recognition in Downbeat magazine. In

1989, Fareed joined the faculty of Northern Illinois University, where he currently holds an associate professorship in jazz and classical guitar studies, (but don't ever call him "Professor Haque," or he'll smash you over the head with an MXR distortion -plus).

Born in 1963 to Pakistani father and Chilean mother, extensive travels, especially long stays in Spain, France, Iran, Pakistan and Chile, exposed Haque to different musics from a very early age. This natural eclecticism has become the hallmark of Fareed's music. The 1981 Recipient of North Texas State University's Jazz Guitar Scholarship, Haque spent a year studying with renowned jazz guitarist and pedagogue Jack Peterson. Fareed's growing interest in the classical guitar led him to transfer to Northwestern University, where he completed his studies in classical

guitar under David Buch, John Holmquist and Anne Waller. Fareed later became an associate professor in jazz and classical guitar studies at Northern Illinois University.

As a classical guitarist, Fareed has performed as soloist and accompanist with Nigel Kennedy, Robert Conant, Edgar Meyer, members of the Vermeer Quartet and many symphony orchestras in the U.S.

and abroad. He is an active transcriber of baroque as well as South American music and has had numerous modern works dedicated to him. Please check out Fareed's lessons, leadsheets, recordings and discography to see and hear examples of his work.