Tenor Adam Riis has an extensive résumé of performances and recordings in the fields of choral music, lieder, and opera. His work focuses on Baroque music, but he has performed music of all periods, including contemporary works. Riis made his recording debut in 2001 with the Copenhagen Royal Chapel Choir on the album Buxtehude Vocal Music, Vol. 2. In 2008, he joined soprano Signe Asmussen and pianist Christian Westergaard on the album Nørholm: Songs of Their Times, and he and Westergaard went on to perform and record frequently together. Riis' repertory extends from choral music to lieder and opera. Riis' theatrical credits include recordings of Carl Nielsen's opera Maskarade. In 2023, he appeared with the vocal group Concert Clemens in Hugo Distler's a cappella Christmas oratorio Die Weihnachtsgeschichte.