Adeliia (Adele) Faizullina

Adeliia (Adele) Faizullina (b.1988) is an Uzbekistan-born Tatar composer, vocalist, multi-instrumentalist and quray player. As a composer, she explores cutting-edge vocal colors and paints delicate and vibrant atmospheres inspired by the music and poetry of Tatar folklore. The Washington Post has praised her compositions as "vast and varied, encompassing memory and imagination." Her recent commissions include works for Longleash Ensemble, Jennifer Koh, the Tesla Quartet, Johnny Gandelsman, and the Metropolis Ensemble. Her works have also been performed by the Minnesota Orchestra, American Composers Orchestra, Seattle Symphony, Albany Symphony, Kronos Quartet, International Contemporary Ensemble, the Del Sol Quartet, Brianna Matzke, Ashley Bathgate, Stephanie Lamprea, and Duo Cortona. Adeliia was one of seven composers to be selected for the Minnesota Orchestra Composer Institute in 2022. She was a guest artist at Play On Philly in 2021, and is a member of Composing Earth 2022-2023, by the Gabriela Lena Frank Creative Academy of Music. Since 2023, Adeliia has worked alongside Joseph Butch Rovan (faculty of Music and Multimedia Composition at Brown University) to develop AMI: Asymmetrical Media Interface, a software allowing visually impaired musicians and composers to create interactive electronic music.

Adeliia received her BM in Voice in Kazan, Russia, and BM in Music Composition at Gnessins Russian Academy of Music. She holds an MM in Music Composition from the University of Texas at Austin, and is currently pursuing her PhD in Music & Multimedia Composition at Brown University. 

Adeliia currently resides in Denver, Colorado, where she is working on her PhD dissertation for Brown University. She enjoys taking walks, being in nature, and also happens to be blind.