Dana Whiteside

Baritone

Baritone Dana Whiteside has crafted a life in music that encompasses performance as a soloist and ensemble member.  He has performed in Haydn’s Creation, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis and Ninth Symphony, the Verdi Requiem, Carmina Burana, Mozart’s Requiem and his Vesperae Solemnes, the Passions of J.S. Bach (St. Matthew and St. John), and his Mass in B Minor as well as the Sea Symphony by Ralph Vaughan Williams performed at the Kennedy Center in Washington DC.

Roles in works for stage have included Time in the Boston premiere of John Harbison’s Winter’s Tale with the Boston Modern Orchestra Project, the Speaker in The Magic Flute with Boston Baroque; and, with Emmanuel Music, the role of Carl Magnus in Stephen Sondheim’s A Little Night Music. Dana has received critical acclaim for his voice of “noble clarity throughout powerful and resonant” (The Washington Post). 

Highlights of the 2023-2024 Season include his debut with A Far Cry as Tancredi in Il Combattimiento di Tancredi e Clorinda also appearances as soloist in Ralph Vaughan Williams Fantasia on Christmas Carols with the Boston POPS Orchestra at Symphony Hall, the Monteverdi Vespers and soloist the world premiere of I Will Tell You at Merkin Hall New York City.

Educated at Holy Cross College, the Longy School of Music, New England Conservatory and the Tanglewood Music Center, Dana is an avid recitalist and has appeared with Musicians of the Old Post Road and the Florestan Recital Project as well as in programs at the French Library and University of Oregon. He enjoys affiliations with the Handel & Haydn Society, Cantata Singers, Emmanuel Music, and Boston Baroque. He is also a member of the Grammy-nominated Skylark Vocal Ensemble and is a featured soloist on the group’s recent albums Winter’s Night, Seven Words from the Cross, It’s A Long Way, and La Vie en Rose.

Dana belongs to Beyond Artists, a coalition of artists whose members donate a portion of their concert fee to organizations they care about; and with his performances he supports Bay Cove Human Services which provides mental health/addiction/recovery support and the Women’s Lunch Place which supports the dignity of women. danawhitesidebaritone.com

(Photo by Miranda Loud)