Deniz Uzun

Turkish German mezzo-soprano Deniz Uzun is a graduate of the Indiana University Jacobs School of Music and was a 2022 winner of the Elizabeth Connel Prize and a 2021 winner of the Eva Marton Prize. She was a member of the Young Artist Program of the Bavarian State Opera.

Among the highlights of the 2025–26 season are Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony in Pordenone, Trieste, and Istanbul; Vivaldi’s Farnace in Madrid, Paris, and Geneva with Ensemble I Gemelli; Eugene Onegin at Berlin’s Schillertheater; Siegfried and Götterdämmerung in Wuppertal; Rigoletto in Marseille; and Verdi’s Requiem with The Cleveland Orchestra and Franz Welser-Möst at Carnegie Hall and in Miami.

Highlights of Uzun’s previous seasons have included the title role in Carmen at the Landestheater Salzburg, Dialogues des Carmélites at the Teatro La Fenice, and concert appearances with the Leipzig Gewandhaus Orchester, Dallas Symphony Orchestra, Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano, and Berlin Radio Symphony Orchestra.