Grammy Award-winning and Tony Award-nominated American tenor Garrett Sorenson has been praised as an artist of unique interest, garnering critical acclaim for the beauty and power of his rich lyric voice.

This season, Sorenson joins the Grand Rapids Symphony for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 conducted by Marcelo Lehninger and performs Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Kansas City Symphony and Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, both conducted by Matthias Pintscher.

Highlights of past seasons include his appearance with Artis–Naples in Mahler’s Das Lied von der Erde and his return to San Francisco Opera as Steve Wozniak in Mason Bates’ The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs—a role he created in the opera’s 2017 world premiere at Santa Fe Opera and later recorded with the same company for the 2019 Grammy Award-winning (Best Opera Recording) release. He also performed Handel’s Messiah and Rachmaninoff’s The Bells with the Nashville Symphony under Giancarlo Guerrero, reprised Wozniak in his house debut at Seattle Opera, returned to Kentucky Opera as Bacchus in Ariadne auf Naxos and sang Faust in the world premiere of The Beyond, in collaboration with Louisville Ballet. In concert, he has performed Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Orquesta Sinfónica de Castilla y León, The Bells with the Houston Symphony under Andrés Orozco-Estrada and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Charlotte Symphony and Phoenix Symphony. In 2011, he appeared on Broadway in the extended run of Terrence McNally’s Master Class, opposite Tyne Daly, and took part in the production’s successful transfer to London’s West End, earning a Tony Award nomination for Best Revival of a Play.

Sorenson created the role of Steve Wozniak in the world premiere of The (R)evolution of Steve Jobs at Santa Fe Opera. He also performed Anthony Candolino in the West Coast premiere of Jake Heggie and Terrence McNally’s Great Scott at San Diego Opera, returned to West Australian Opera as Rodolfo in La bohème, made his role debut as Cavaradossi in Tosca at Arizona Opera and appeared in a new production of Bedřich Smetana’s The Kiss at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis. He returned to the Metropolitan Opera as Laca in Jenůfa and Matteo in Arabella. On the concert stage, he has appeared in Dvořák’s Stabat Mater with L’Orchestre Métropolitain conducted by Yannick Nézet-Séguin, Mozart’s Requiem with The Cleveland Orchestra under David Robertson, Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra conducted by Asher Fisch, Elgar’s The Kingdom and Janáček’s Glagolitic Mass at the Grant Park Music Festival under the baton of Carlos Kalmar, and Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with Giancarlo Guerrero conducting The Cleveland Orchestra in their residency at the Adrienne Arsht Center for the Performing Arts in Miami.

A graduate of the Lindemann Young Artist Development Program, Sorenson made his company debut at the Metropolitan Opera as Itulbo in Bellini’s rarely performed Il pirata, opposite Renée Fleming. He later went on to perform Cassio in the opening night gala of Otello conducted by James Levine. Additional roles at the Metropolitan Opera include Da-ud in Richard Strauss’ Die Ägyptische Helena starring Deborah Voigt and conducted by Fabio Luisi, the Shepherd in Tristan und Isolde and the Youth in Schoenberg’s Moses und Aaron under the baton of James Levine, Alfred in Die Fledermaus, Scaramucci in Ariadne auf Naxos, Arturo in Lucia di Lammermoor and the Young Man in Die Frau ohne Schatten.

Other career operatic highlights include debuts at San Francisco Opera as Narraboth in Salome conducted by Nicola Luisotti, Lyric Opera of Chicago as Kudryash in Káťa Kabanová opposite Karita Mattila, Canadian Opera Company and West Australian Opera as Don José in Carmen, and Santa Fe Opera as Leukippos in Strauss’ Daphne directed by Mark Lamos. Sorenson has also sung the Italian Tenor in Maximilian Schell’s production of Der Rosenkavalier at Los Angeles Opera, conducted by Kent Nagano; Edgardo in Lucia di Lammermoor at West Australian Opera; Rodolfo in La bohème and Don Ottavio in Don Giovanni at Houston Grand Opera, under the baton of Patrick Summers; the title role in Les Contes d’Hoffmann and Sam Kaplan in Street Scene at Opera Theatre of Saint Louis; the Duke of Mantua in Rigoletto at Arizona Opera; Alfredo in La traviata and Lensky in Eugene Onegin at Boston Lyric Opera; his role debut as Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly at Indianapolis Opera; and the title role in Werther at Kentucky Opera opposite his wife, Elizabeth Batton, as Charlotte.

A consummate concert performer and recitalist, Sorenson participated in The Song Continues under the auspices of the Marilyn Horne Foundation, a weeklong series of performances and masterclasses at Carnegie Hall. Notable symphonic appearances include Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 with the Tanglewood Festival under the baton of Kurt Masur, at the Verbier Festival in Switzerland under the baton of James Levine and with the San Francisco Symphony under the baton of Michael Tilson Thomas. In addition to Salome, Sorenson has performed in Elektra with The Cleveland Orchestra under Franz Welser-Möst and in a concert version of Simon Boccanegra with James Levine and the Boston Symphony Orchestra. He has also sung a program of Viennese music with the New York Philharmonic and a concert of arias and duets with the Baltimore Symphony Orchestra, as well as Das Lied von der Erde with the South Dakota Symphony and Verdi’s Messa da Requiem with the Houston Symphony.

Among his honors and awards, Sorenson was the winner of the Opera Birmingham Young Singer Contest and the Sorantin Young Artist Award. A finalist in the Loren L. Zachary Society Competition for Young Opera Singers, Sorenson was also named a winner at the 2003 George London Foundation Competition and of a Sara Tucker Study Grant. In 2004, he was awarded the Richard Tucker Foundation Career Grant. Sorenson is a graduate of Texas Tech University and currently resides in Kentucky with his wife, Elizabeth Batton, as well as his two children.