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In additition to being a professional singer, Donald Wilkinson is also a serious birdwatcher. A long-time member and leader for the Brookline Bird Club of Massachusetts as well as a frequent participant on Bill Drummond Birding Tours, Don will be leading a series of out of state birding trips. Click on Trip Schedule for more info on Don’s birding activities.

Baritone Donald Wilkinson enjoys a distinguished career in concert, opera, oratorio, recital and contemporary music, and has appeared throughout the United States and Canada. 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 in Germany (Kassel), France (Paris, Strasbourg, Saintes, Clisson, Ribeauvillé), and Holland (Utrecht). 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, in 2003 he made his debut at the Northwest Bach Festival (Spokane) in Bach’s Christmas Oratorio and Mozart’s Requiem under the direction of Gunther Schuller. He has also 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 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, David Patterson’s song cycle Last Words on Albany Records and the recently released The Jesuit Operas with Ensemble Abendmusik on Dorian Recordings. In 1990 he was awarded a fellowship to Tanglewood. Mr. Wilkinson teaches voice at Phillips Academy Andover and maintains a private studio at his residence in Nahant, MA.