Baritone Donald Wilkinson has appeared throughout the United States and Canada following a distinguished career in concert, opera, oratorio, recital and contemporary music. In 1995 he made his European debut performing the role of Dionysos in the World premiere of Theodore Antoniou's opera, The Bacchae, at the Acropolis in Athens, Greece.
Since that debut he has appeared at the music festivals of Kassel (Germany), Saintes (France), Clisson (France), Ribeauvill (France), and Utrecht (Holland). Mr. Wilkinson has performed as soloist with Seiji Ozawa and the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Christopher Hogwood and the Handel and Haydn Society (a U.S. tour of Bach's Missa Brevis in G Minor), and the symphony orchestras of Pittsburgh, Jacksonville, Springfield (MA), Portland (ME), and Vermont.
Since 1984 he has been a soloist in Emmanuel Music's famed Bach Cantata Series under the direction of Craig Smith. Highly sought after for his interpretations of Bach, he has appeared at the Bach Festivals of Carmel and Philadelphia and is featured on Emmanuel Music's recordings (Koch International Classics) of Bach's Christmas Cantatas, St. John Passion (1725 version) and the recently released Cantatas for the 1st and 2nd Sundays after Trinity. His Discography also includes the title role on the internationally acclaimed Johnny Johnson by Kurt Weill on Erato Disques, Angels with the Boston Camerata (Erato), John Harbison's Recordare on Koch International Classics, and David Patterson's song cycle Last Words on Albany Records. In 1990 he was awarded a fellowship to Tanglewood.
Mr. Wilkinson teaches voice at Harvard University, Emerson College, and maintains a private studio at his residence in Nahant, MA.