WE ARE DELIGHTED TO WELCOME CANADIAN-BULGARIAN MEZZO SOPRANO ADANYA DUNN TO THE DEAN ARTISTS MANAGEMENT ROSTER!
Canadian-Bulgarian mezzo-soprano Adanya Dunn (she/her) made her American debut as Hermia in Britten's A Midsummer Night's Dream with the Santa Fe Opera in the summer of 2021. Adanya is an alumna of the University of Toronto, Bard College Conservatory, and the Conservatorium van Amsterdam. Performance highlights include: Dorabella (Così fan tutte), Sesto (La clemenza di Tito), Berio’s Sequenza III, and concerts at Amsterdam's Muziekgebouw, Het Concertgebouw, and Dutch National Opera. She is a recipient of the 2021 Sylva Gelber Music Foundation Award, the 2020 Hnatyshyn Foundation Developing Artist Grant winner, Michigan District Winner MONC 2020, and a three-time grant recipient Canada Council for the Arts. In August 2020, Adanya founded Red Light Arts & Culture in Amsterdam, a not-for-profit foundation that connects local entrepreneurs, professional musicians and artists, and site-specific locations, adding to the rich cultural diversity of the Red Light District. For this project, she was a 2020 winner of the Music Academy of the West’s Alumni Enterprise Award. In April 2022, Adanya sings Mozart's Requiem with the Orchestre philharmonique de Radio France in Paris and Aix-en-Provence conducted by Barbara Hannigan.
You can read more about Adanya here or head to her website for more information.