Erik Danielson is an up and coming Bass-Baritone artist who one critic has described as possessing “a barihunk instrument.” He most recently spent two years at the Boston University Opera Institute, where he starred as Nick Shadow in The Rake’s Progress and Edmund Bertram in Mansfield Park. He obtained his Bachelor of Music degree from Texas Christian University in Vocal Performance and Piano Performance in 2014, where he was the recipient of the Chancellor’s Scholarship for academic excellence, a National Merit Scholar, and a finalist for the Nordan Scholarship as both a vocalist and pianist. He then earned a Master’s degree in Vocal Performance and Conducting from Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in 2017. He was a member of the Texas Boy’s Choir for 9 years, with whom he toured throughout the United States and Europe. He has sung roles in opera, oratorio, and musical theater, including Leporello and Commendatore from Don Giovanni, Bill Sikes in Oliver!, and the Bass solo in The Messiah.
In addition to vocal and acting work, he is an accomplished church musician, and a skilled collaborative pianist with over twenty years of experience, having begun accompanying high school clarinet students before the age of ten.