Chicago based, soprano Tiana Sorenson’s operatic performance credits include the roles of Governess (Turn of the Screw), Zerlina (Don Giovanni), the title role in Handel’s Theodora, and Sa Femme (Le Pauvre Matelot) with Northwestern Opera Theatre. She also covered the role of Pip in Jake Heggie’s Moby Dick with Chicago Opera Theater. In concert settings, she’s been the soprano soloist for Adolphus Hailstork’s oratorio Done Made My Vow with Lawrence University’s Symphony Orchestra and Poulenc’s Gloria with the symphony orchestras of UW-Milwaukee and UW-Parkside. She was seen in West Side Story at the Edinburgh International Festival under the baton of Sir John Eliot Gardiner.

With a passion for social justice, representation, and relatability in the classical performing arts, she has been a guest panelist for #BlackVoicesMatter, a virtual discussion through Facebook in the fall with Milwaukee's early music ensemble Aperi Animam, has been a featured artist with Chicago-based organization Hearing In Color, whose mission is to underscore the work of music historically excluded from classical spaces.  She has and continues to join Grammy award-winning new music ensemble  The Crossing on various projects. This past February she debuted with LOFT Recital in Minneapolis for their Modern Black Womxn program, where she sang works arranged and composed by Black women.