Mezzo-soprano Denise Gamez regularly sings recital, oratorio, and symphonic repertoire with orchestras throughout the United States and abroad.  She has appeared with the Indianapolis, San Francisco Opera, Toledo, Columbus Indiana Philharmonic, and Wheaton College symphony orchestras, and twice performed with the National Symphony Orchestra of Costa Rica with John Nelson, most recently in Beethoven's Missa Solemnis.  

Gamez has collaborated with other conductors including Patrick Summers, Dennis Russell Davies, David Bowden, Delta David Gier, Sherrill Milnes, and Daniel Sommerville, in repertoire including the Verdi Requiem, Mahler's Songs of a Wayfarer, the Brahms Alto Rhapsody, Mendelssohn's Elijah, the Bach Saint Matthew Passion, Handel's Messiah, and de Falla's Siete Canciones Populares Españolas.  

At the Merola Opera Program of the San Francisco Opera, where she received the Gropper Memorial Award, she sang Dame Quickly in Verdi's Falstaff, and Fidalma in Cimarosa's The Secret Marriage.  Recently, she has been a frequent guest artist at the Peoria Bach Festival, sung operatic and Broadway selections with the Terre Haute Symphony Orchestra, performed Beethoven's Ninth Symphony with the MasterWorks Festival Orchestra, and the Bach Saint John Passion with the South Dakota Symphony Orchestra.  She recently appeared as Mrs. Noye in the Wheaton College Opera Theater production of Britten's Noye's Fludde.  

Gamez is a graduate of the Wheaton College Conservatory of Music and the Indiana University School of Music.