Peter Dawson (bass baritone)
Peter Smith Dawson was an Australian bassbaritone and songwriter. Dawson gained worldwide renown through song recitals and many bestselling recordings of operatic arias, oratorio solos and rousing ballads during a career spanning almost 60 years.
Peter Dawson was born in 1882 to immigrant Scottish parents, Thomas Dawson, an ironworker, plumber and seaman from Kirkcaldy and Alison, ne Miller, in Adelaide, South Australia. The youngest of nine children, he attended East Adelaide Primary School, then Pulteney Street Grammar School. At the age ofhe joined a church choir and received singing lessons from C.J. Stevens. Then, aged 19, he won a prize for the best bass solo in a competition at Ballarat, Victoria, and began taking up concert engagements. He was a featured singer at the 1901 Christmas performance of Messiah at the Adelaide Town Hall.
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