Maureen Sorensson
Lecturer
Voice

Maureen Sorensson, soprano, received her bachelor's and master's degrees in Vocal Performance from Colorado State University and University of Colorado at Boulder under the instruction of the late vocal pedagogue, Barbara M. Doscher.  Awards include the Noris Performance Award, placement in Metropolitan Opera Guild regional competitions and the Denver Lyric Opera Guild. She celebrated by singing Christmas Eve 1999 Jubilee Mass at St. Peter's Basilica at the Vatican City.

Ms. Sorensson has established herself as one of the leading regional sopranos in opera and in her other passion, oratorio literature.  Among operatic credits are roles in Don Pasquale, The Merry Wives of Windsor and The Magic Flute.  Concert repertoire includes the cantatas, passions, oratorios, masses and requiems of J.S. Bach, Beethoven, Mozart, Handel, Haydn, Faure, Brahms, Mendelssohn, Samuel Barber, Rutter, Carl Orff, Dave Brubeck and Bernstein, Villa-Lobos's with orchestras and choruses in Colorado,Wyoming, Kansas and Illinois. 

Ms. Sorensson is a member of the Central City Opera Ensemble, NATS and Delta Omicron Music Fraternity. She is also a member of University of Wyoming's newest music ensemble, "SPaNK," as well as a member of the Fresh Aire Trio with Katrina Zook and Nicole Lamartine.

At UW, Ms. Sorensson teaches Studio Voice, Diction for Singers I and II, and Freshman Voice Seminar.