BEYOND THE OPERA HOUSE
ALTERNATIVE
music
Explore Deniz’s featured video reel, audio recordings live and in the studio, and press and production photography from numerous international opera house debuts.
ABOUT
Beyond the
opera house
Equally at home in alternative genres of music, Deniz’s artistic portfolio highlights a passion for world music, which has always accompanied her musical path, whether it is rearranging traditional Turkish folk songs or improvising on themes of Benjamin Britten.
VIDEO
DENIZ
+ alyuvar
Two traditional Turkish folk songs, rearranged and reimagined — from a wedding song restructured into a varied stanzaic setting, to a 16th-century poem turned numetal and performed in one of the grungier venues in Mannheim, Germany.
Yüksek yüksek tepelere ev kurmasınlar
A traditional Turkish folk song usually played at weddings, rearranged into a varied stanzaic setting.
Gelin canlar bir olalım
A folk song based on a poem by Pir Sultan Abdal (1480–1550), rearranged into a numetal version and performed in one of the grungier venues in Mannheim, Germany.
AUDIO
DENIZ
at the piano
Two recordings rooted in childhood — a Britten improvisation born of years singing in a children’s choir, and a Sephardic song passed down through synagogue performances since the age of ten.
Cuckoo
Deniz Uzun
Friday Afternoons · Benjamin Britten — piano improvisation
Partos Trocatos
Deniz Uzun, Marat Pak, Alexander von Chmaladse
From "Siete Canciones Sefardies," arranged by Pedro Elias — a 15th-century Sephardic song rearranged with an ambient touch on this medieval structure.
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