Moving easily between jazz and classical guitar, guitar virtuoso Fareed haque has worked with prominent artists including Paquito D’rivera, Dave Holland, Sting, Joe Henderson, Joe Zawinul, Cassandra Wilson, Kurt Elling, Lester Bowie, Arturo Sandoval, medeski, Martin and Wood, Kahil el Zabar, Defunckt, Ramsey Lewis, Nigel Kennedy, Edgar Meyer, Robert Conant, Stephen Stubbs, Frank Bungarten, members of the Vermeer Quartet and many symphony orchestras in the U.S. and abroad. He has permformed all of the major guitar concertos, is an active transcriber of baroque as well as South American music and has had numerous modern works dedicated to him.

Borni in 1963 to Pakistani father and Chilean mother, extensive travels, especially long stays in Spain, France, Iron, Pakistan, and Chile, exposed Haque to different musics from a very early age. this natural eclecticism has become the hallmork 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 Holmquest and Anne Waller.

Haque continues to co-lead Garaj Mahal; the jam/jazz/world music group won an Indpendent Music Award in ’07. Voted ‘Best world Guitarist’ by Guitar Player magazine 2009, Haque continues to tour and record extensively.