Her bedside manner includes a high “C”. For the past 15 years Ms. Annis has practised as a Registered Nurse in her home country of Canada, specializing in adult multi-system intensive care. Just recently she turned her focus towards her passion, music. She began her musical studies at the University of Victoria under Alexandra Browning. She graduated with honours in 2005 and is currently enrolled as a fellow at the North Carolina School of the Arts’ A.J. Fletcher Opera Institute where she is pursuing her Masters of Music under the tutelage of Dr. Marilyn Taylor.

 Ms. Annis’s roles with the Fletcher Opera Institute during the 2006-2007 season included Mrs. Webb in Ned Rorem’s Our Town and Pamina from Die Zauberflöte and Fiordigili from Così fan tutte for the Fletcher Opera Institute scenes program. Ms. Annis was recently featured as a soloist in the University of Victoria’s annual concerto concert where under the baton of János Sándor, she performed Richard Strauss’s Four Last Songs.

Previous solo concert performances include Mendelssohn's Elijah, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Schubert’s Mass in E Flat, as well as concert presentations of Ebben? Ne andrò lontana from La Wally, Song to the Moon from Rusalka, final trio from Der Rosenkavalier, and Non mi dir from Don Giovanni.  Ms. Annis was pleased to have the opportunity to study with renowned tenor Richard Miller at the International Summer Academy, Mozarteum, Salzburg Austria. During the summer of 2005 she understudied the role of Donna Anna in Don Giovanni with the Astoria Summer Music Festival. Last summer Ms. Annis traveled again to Salzburg Austria where she studied with Edith Wiens at the International Summer Academy Mozarteum and with Sona Ghazarian at the Wiener Musikseminar in Vienna.

Ms. Annis’s most recent accolades include being a two-time recipient of the Johann Strauss Scholarship in 2004 and 2006, as well as a finalist for Canadian Bravo’s reality TV show Bathroom Divas.