About Faith Adams
Born in Fort Worth, TX
Faith Adams entered the Texas All-State Choir competition process as a high-schooler, and her success ignited a passion for performing. Since then, she obtained her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at TCU under the tutelage of both Angela Turner Wilson and Twyla Robinson, and she is a current pupil of Irini Kyriakidou Hymel at Loyola University New Orleans as she works toward her Master of Music in Vocal Performance.
Ms. Adams holds titles such as the Second Prize Winner of the Young Soloist International Music Competition (2023), Finalist and Semi-Finalist in Texoma NATS (2019 and 2020), and Schmidt Competition Finalist (2017). Additionally, she has participated in various professional engagements, such as performing in Handel's Messiah as a soprano soloist, performing at the Fort Worth Rodeo, and performing at Billy Bob's National Rodeo VIP Gold Access Event. In 2020, she participated in the TCU Festival of American Song in collaboration with composer Libby Larsen.
No stranger to choral performance, Ms. Adams is a professional choir member of St. Andrew's Episcopal Church in New Orleans. She previously worked as a choral scholar at St. Stephen Presbyterian in Fort Worth, and with this choir, she participated in a residency at Canterbury Cathedral and St. Albans Cathedral in the United Kingdom (2024).
Collegiate Engagements
With TCU Opera Studio, Faith Adams performed as Susannah in Carlisle Floyd's Susannah (2023), Pamina in Mozart's Die Zauberflöte (2023) and First Witch in Purcell's Dido and Aeneas (2022).
Additional role performances at TCU include Pernille in The Beautiful Bridegroom, La Modista in Il cappello di paglia di Firenze, and #9 and #22 in Speed Dating Tonight!!
Stay tuned for her future engagements with Loyola Opera Studio and New Orleans Opera!
Young Artist Programs
In summer 2023, Ms. Adams made her Carnegie Hall debut with Manhattan Opera Studio. With the company in residence at OPERA America, she performed as Papagena and covered Pamina in a full-scale production of Mozart's Die Zauberflöte, and she performed in an additional concert production of Die Zauberflöte as Pamina.
Ms. Adams attended the 2021 Taos Opera Institute and performed under guidance of resident composer Michael Ching in a production of his opera Remove Shoes Before Entering.