Dashon Burton

Bass-baritone Dashon Burton’s 2025–26 season highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Fidelio with The Cleveland Orchestra, Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer with the New Jersey Symphony, Britten’s War Requiem with the Erie Philharmonic, and Handel’s Messiah at Augustana College. He also appears in recital at The Phillips Collection in Washington, DC.

A three-time Grammy Award winner, Burton earned Best Classical Solo Vocal Album in 2021 for Ethyl Smyth’s The Prison with the Experiential Orchestra, and has twice won with the vocal ensemble Roomful of Teeth, of which he is a founding member. His discography also includes Songs of Struggle & Redemption: We Shall Overcome, Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road, and Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners with Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra.

Burton holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory and Yale University’s Institute of Sacred Music. He is assistant professor of voice at Vanderbilt University’s Blair School of Music.