Alena Sorokina

Born in Russia to an opera singer mother and guitarist father, as a toddler Alena sang herself to sleep with Russian folk songs, sometimes improvising her own melodies. Her earliest memories include dreams of becoming a singer. At the age of six, she enrolled in music school, where she learned piano, theory, and solfège, a system of hand signals that allows musicians to hear different pitches in their head and then sing them aloud.

 

She began performing professionally at 13, when a vocal coach noted her talent and tapped her for a children’s musical theater troupe, which led to her hosting and performing weekly children’s shows. She obtained some jazz instruction at her first college, and shortly after turning 18, Alena moved to Moscow to attend Russia’s preeminent music conservatory.

 

By graduation, she was already giving voice lessons and was hoping someday to apply to Berklee Music School in Boston. Notably, between the years of 2014 and 2021 she also studied opera privately with a famous Moscow opera teacher, and in 2019 she studied opera at the University of North Carolina, Wilmington towards a degree there, but COVID necessitated a hiatus and return to Russia.

 

On her return to the US, Alena successfully transferred to Berklee School of Music from which she has now recently graduated with a Bachelor's Degree in Music Production.