Voice Instrument: Alto
Bio:

Elyse Willis has been a member of the Los Angeles Master Chorale since 2009. She is an active freelance musician and educator, as well as a passionate union advocate. She served as the AGMA Delegate for LAMC from 2018-2023 and currently serves both the LA local and national SAG-AFTRA singer committees. 

As a session singer, vocal contractor, and songwriter, Elyse has over 120 film, TV, and video game titles to her name. Favorite credits include La La Land, Wicked and Wicked: For Good, How To Train Your Dragon, The Minions films, WandaVision, and Frozen II. As a backing singer, she has performed with Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande (2025 Academy Awards), The Weeknd (Super Bowl LV Halftime Show), and sang and danced live onstage with Kristen Bell at the 2026 Actor Awards. She voiced an opera-singing alien in Star Wars Episode VIII: The Last Jedi and was the choir contractor for John Williams for Star Wars Episode IX: The Rise of Skywalker and Disclosure Day. 

Elyse and her husband, composer Christopher Willis, have collaborated as songwriters on multiple Disney projects including Disney Mickey Mouse Shorts and The Wonderful World of Mickey Mouse. They also co-wrote "Nothing Can Stop Us Now," the theme song to Mickey & Minnie's Runaway Railway at Walt Disney World and Disneyland. Additionally, she is a Teaching Artist at Disneyland’s Imagination Campus, where she coaches choral and musical theater students from all around the United States and abroad. She graduated magna cum laude from UCLA in 2009 with a BA in Music, specializing in vocal music education.