Coakwell, Dann

Dann Coakwell

Dann Coakwell, tenor, has been praised as a “clear-voiced and eloquent … vivid storyteller” (The New York Times), with “a gorgeous lyric tenor that could threaten or caress on the turn of a dime" (The Dallas Morning News). He can be heard as a soloist on the Grammy-winning album The Sacred Spirit of Russia (2014), as well as multiple other critically acclaimed albums, recent examples of which include Mendelssohn & Bach: Matthäus-passion (2024), James Richman & Dallas Bach Society: Messiah (1741 Original Version) (2024), and Bruhns: Cantatas and Organ Works, Vol. 1 (2022).

Coakwell has sung across the world under renowned conductors such as Helmuth Rilling, Masaaki Suzuki, Monica Huggett, William Christie, Nicholas McGegan, Matthew Halls, María Guinand, and Craig Hella Johnson. Having performed in prominent venues such as Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center in New York, he has also appeared as a soloist with organizations such as Internationale Bachakademie Stuttgart in Germany, Bach Collegium Japan, Orquesta Sinfónica de Venezuela, Pacific Baroque Orchestra in Canada, Philharmonia Baroque Orchestra in San Francisco, Oregon Bach Festival, Portland and Indianapolis Baroque Orchestra, Bach Choir of Bethlehem, Dallas Bach Society, Conspirare, and the symphony orchestras of Orlando, Charlotte, Nashville, Indianapolis, Quad Cities, and Kansas City.

Having served for more than two and a half decades as an educator at institutions that have included Yale, Ithaca College, and Colgate University, Dr. Coakwell also appears nationally and abroad as a guest teaching artist. www.danncoakwell.com