Dana Whiteside, baritone

Dana Whiteside’s recent solo engagements have included  Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony on Boston’s Esplanade; Heinrich Schuetz’s Symphonia Sacrae, Handel’s Belshazzar, the Mass in Bminor and St. John Passion of J.S. Bach with Cantata Singers under the baton of John Harbison. In addition he has appeared with the Landmarks Orchestera, Newton Symphony Orchestra, and Chorus Pro Musica; and performed Antonin Dvorak’s Te Deum, Opus 103, sung the role of King Herod in Schuetz’s Die Weinachthistorien and was baritone soloist in Carl Orff’s Carmina Burana with the Dedham Choral Society as part of its 50th anniversary gala concert in Jordan Hall. 

Mr. Whiteside began the study of German lieder and French melodie with Dorothea Brinkmann; and worked extensively with Phyllis Curtin and Margo Garrett at Tanglewood where he performed in recitals at Seiji Ozawa Hall. He has continued to offer recitals of varying and adventurous repertoire in programs at Boston University, the Brookline Public Library, the Vox Humana Series, the Lyric Stage and the French Library in Boston. Recent programs have included Schumann’s Liederkreis Op. 39, Samuel Barber’s Despite & Still  and Beethoven’s An die ferne Geliebte and a program entitled The Landscape Within, an exploration of the songs of Ernest Chausson, Claude Debussy and Francis Poulenc..

In addition, he has enjoyed great success as soloist in performances of Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Five Mystical Songs; the Requiems of Durufle, Faure and Mozart; Handel’s Messiah and Haydn’s Missa in Tempore Belli as well as  Brahms’s Ein Deutsches Requiem  in performance with the Worcester Consortium Chorale at Mechanics Hall. A winner of the National Association of Teachers of Singing Competition, Dana is an honors graduate of the New England Conservatory of Music where he studied voice and opera with Susan Clickner and John Moriarty. He enjoys affiliation with the Handel & Haydn Society and Emmanuel Music; and has been a soloist with the choir of Trinity Church Copley Square with which he is featured on the recordings With Heart and Voice, Sounds of Light, A Choral Christmas, and Radiant Light.  Upcoming performances for the 2007-2008 season include recital programs at the University of Oregon (Korvallis), Babson College, and Boston’s Isabella Steward Gardner Museum as well as Brahms Ein Deutsches Requiem with Cantata Singers in Jordan Hall.