Dashon Burton

Bass-baritone Dashon Burton’s 2025–26 season highlights include Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony and Fidelio with The Cleveland Orchestra. He also sings Mahler’s Songs of a Wayfarer and Mozart’s Requiem with the New Jersey Symphony, appears with the Bach Choir of Bethlehem, and presents a recital at The Phillips Collection.

Burton received the Grammy Award for 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 Paul Moravec’s Sanctuary Road and Caroline Shaw’s The Listeners.

Burton holds degrees from Oberlin College and Conservatory and Yale University. He is assistant professor of voice at Vanderbilt University.