DAVÓNE TINES
After a week-long creative residency at Studio 9, DAVÓNE TINES & THE TRUTH will share bits and pieces of developmental work rooted in themes of love, healing, generational trauma, and communal release, this work-in-progress showing reflects their process of expanding early ideas into musical themes, and structures discovered during their time in residence.
Davóne Tines is a curator and performer known for his work in opera, art song, spirituals, gospel, and protest songs.
Lauded by The New Yorker as “a singer of immense power and fervor,” Tines recently debuted at the Metropolitan Opera in John Adams’s El Niño and released his first studio album, ROBESOИ, reinterpreting music by Paul Robeson. He has premiered works by Adams, Blanchard, and Aucoin, and premiered with the Philadelphia Orchestra, the New York and Los Angeles Philharmonic.
Tines holds the 2025 Harvard Arts Medal, 2024 Chanel Next Prize, and was named Musical America’s Vocalist of the Year (2022).
