DENISE GAMEZ received a Master of Music in Voice from Indiana University.  She was twice a member of the Merola Opera Program at the San Francisco Opera Center, where she received the Gropper Memorial Award, and sang Dame Quickly in Falstaff, and Fidalma in Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage.  She has also performed with a number of orchestras, including the Indianapolis Symphony Orchestra and the Toledo Symphony Orchestra, and has worked with such conductors as Patrick Summers, Dennis Russell Davies and David Bowden.  Her concert repertoire includes the Verdi Requiem, Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Mendelssohn's Elijah, Beethoven's Missa Solemnis, the Bach Saint Matthew Passion, and Handel's Messiah. 

She appeared as mezzo soloist in the 2004 premiere performance of Children of God by the rising young American composer Daniel Kellogg, commissioned by Soli Deo Gloria.  Other engagements this season include Elijah with Sherrill Milnes conducting, and performances of the Bach Mass in B Minor with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica under John Nelson.  She is currently Special Guest Lecturer in Voice at the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music.  Denise is excited to be returning to perform with the Columbus Indiana Philharmonic.