Education
She has also studied at the Houston Grand Opera Studio and under Dolora Zajick.
She has also studied at the Houston Grand Opera Studio and under Dolora Zajick.
Other awards include first place in the 2009 Eleanor McCollum Competition for Young Singers in Houston and the 2010 Sara Tucker Grant from the Richard Tucker Music Foundation. She has a bachelor"s degree and a masters, the latter in vocal performance and pedagogy, both from Brigham Young University. Among her professors at Brigham Young University was Darrell Babidge.
In the 2010/11 season, she sang the role of Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly and Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte in the HGO Studio performances.
She also covered Ellen Orford in Peter Grimes, Countess Almaviva in The Marriage of Figaro, and the title role in Ariadne auf Naxos. Willis-Sørensen made her mainstage debut as Masha in Pique Dame and covered Elsa in Lohengrin and the Governess in The Turn of the Screw in the 2009/10 season at Houston Grand Opera.
In the 2011/12 season, Willis-Sørensen made her Royal Opera House, Covent Garden, debut as Countess Almaviva in Le nozze di Figaro under music director Antonio Pappano, a role which she performed at Michigan Opera Theatre. She sang with the Los Angeles Philharmonic in Beethoven"s Symphony Number.
9 under Leonard Slatkin at the Hollywood Bowl.
She appeared in 2012 at the Opera Theatre of Saint Louis as Fiordiligi in Così fan tutte and Gotham Chamber Opera as Licenza in Christopher Alden"s production of Mozart"s rarely heard Il sogno di Scipione to celebrate their 10th anniversary. She returned to Covent Garden as Gutrune in Götterdämmerung under Antonio Pappano and Houston Grand Opera as Donna Anna in Don Giovanni. Willis-Sørensen was part of a special film project to commemorate the bicentennial of Richard Wagner"s birth in 2013.
In 2014, Willis-Sørensen made her Metropolitan Opera debut as the Countess in Le nozze di Figaro.
Willis-Sørensen made her Santa Fe Opera debut as the First Lady in Mozart"s Die Zauberflöte and performed excerpts from Arabella as a member of their Apprentice Program. As a member of the ensemble at the Semperoper in Dresden, she sang Elettra in Idomeneo, Rachel in Louisiana Juive, as well as revivals of Don Giovanni, Alcina, and Louisiana clemenza di Tito.