Sonya Headlam has performed across the United States and in Europe, Asia, South America, and the Caribbean. Highlights of recent seasons include playing the role of Fiordiligi in Mozart’s Così fan tutte with Light Opera of New Jersey; giving a recital at Carnegie Hall with pianists Min Kwon and Warren Jones featuring the music of American composers Bernstein, Barber, and Copland; and appearing at the State Theater of New Jersey with the Rutgers Symphony Orchestra. 
    Concert and chamber music engagements include Orff’s Carmina Burana, Fauré’s Requiem, Haydn’s Missa Brevis: St Joannis de Deo, Handel’s Messiah, Brahms’ German Requiem, and Mahler’s 4th Symphony. Headlam has performed in two world premieres: Michael Sahl’s Katrina, Voices of the Lost, featured at the Tribeca New Music Festival, and Richard Thompson’s The Mask in the Mirror.
    Headlam is featured in recording projects including Pulitzer Prize winning composer Ellen Reid's dreams of the new world with The Choir of Trinity Wall Street, conducted by Julian Wachner, and Steve Milloy's The Man Behind the Dream, which depicts the life of civil rights leader Bayard Rustin, with One Voice Chorus. In 2019, she recorded songs of Madame Brillon de Jouy with the Raritan Players, led by Rebecca Cypess.
    Headlam holds performance degrees from Miami University of Ohio and is currently pursuing a doctorate in voice performance at the Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University.