Bass-baritone
Hailed as an artist “alight with the spirit of the music” (Boston Globe), three-time GRAMMY Award-winning bass-baritone Dashon Burton has built a vibrant career with regular appearances across the United States and Europe.
During the 2026-27 season, bass-baritone Dashon Burton returns to many of the country’s leading orchestras and presenters. Orchestral highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony with the Colorado Symphony and Peter Oundjian, New World Symphony and Stéphane Denève, Baltimore Symphony and Oundjian, and the Pacific Symphony and Alexander Shelley; Mozart’s Requiem with the Seattle Symphony and Xian Zhang; and Handel’s Messiah with the Houston Symphony led by Ken David Masur. He also performs Vaughan Williams’ Dona nobis pace alongside Shawn E. Okpebholo’s What the Earth Remembers in Baltimore. In the spring, Burton appears in Bach’s St. Matthew Passion with the National Lutheran Choir and premieres a new work by Christopher Cerrone with the Calder Quartet with dates in Arizona, Napa Valley, San Francisco, Providence, and Amherst. He concludes the season with a return to The Cleveland Orchestra for Richard Strauss’ Die Frau ohne Schatten under Franz Welser-Möst.
Burton holds a Bachelor of Music degree from Oberlin College and Conservatory and a Master of Music degree from Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He is currently Assistant Professor of Voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.
