Adrian Dunn

Adrian Dunn is an a critically acclaimed singer, composer, and conductor. His most recent composition, Emancipation a PBS Special was nominated for 2 Emmy Awards in 2023 featuring The Adrian Dunn Singers & Dunn’s Rize Orchestra. He made his European debut in the Klangwolke Festival in Linz, Austria with the Adrian Dunn Singers. In 2022 he made his Ravinia Festival Chicago Symphony Orchestra composer debut with a choral commission of Going Home from the Dvorak New World Symphony conducted by Marin Alsop. He and The Adrian Dunn Singers performed the film score for the 2022 major motion picture, Honk for Jesus starring Sterling K. Brown (from the NBC hit show This Is Us) and Regina Hall.

In 2022 Mr. Dunn won The American Prize in Composition for Requiem from The Mass for the Unarmed Child and was named in the Top 10 Classical music & Jazz performances of 2021 by Chicago Tribune. He made his composer and conducting debut with The Chicago Philharmonic Orchestra in June 2021. His composition Requiem was most recently performed by the Charlotte Symphony Orchestra and the Morehouse Glee Club in March 2022. He was also the chorus conductor for the Mozart Requiem with the Elgin Symphony Orchestra. Mr. Dunn has had the privilege of working with gospel greats such as Tremaine Hawkins, Myron Butler, Melonie Daniels, Troy Bright, Lamar Campbell, Damien

Sneed, Walt Whitman and the Soul Children of Chicago, Smokie Norful, Jonathan Nelson, and many more. He was awarded the 2015 Album Producer of the Year for AME Live featuring the AME International Mass Choir from the Rhythm of Gospel Awards.