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Helena Sorokina
Mezzosopran
Helēna Sorokina (born 1989 in Riga, Latvia) specializes in contemporary vocal music and concert singing. She studied voice and vocal pedagogy at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz. Since 2021, she has been a doctoral candidate, and since 2022, a university assistant at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz’s Doctoral School of Art and Science.
As a concert singer, she performs regularly for the EuropaChorAkademie and various orchestras (including the Israel Chamber Orchestra, Hamburg Symphony Orchestra, Kurpfälzisches Kammerorchester, Thüringer Philharmonie Gotha, Ornamentum Wien, and Georgisches Kammerorchester Ingolstadt, among others).
She has collaborated with conductors such as Sir Roger Norrington, Joshua Riffkin, Paolo Paroni, Joshard Daus, Johannes Prinz, and Beat Furrer. In 2013, she took on one of the leading roles (First Woman) in the world premiere of the opera »Asteroid 622« by Dmitri Kourliandski; in 2016, she sang the alto part in the world premiere of the opera performance »Paradise« by Laure M. Hiendl (ORF musikprotokoll at steirischer herbst).
Since 2020, she has been developing and presenting the VOICE.ONLY project, an innovative contemporary concert series and a research project of the same name at the University of Music and Performing Arts Graz, which explores the various facets, techniques, and notations of the contemporary singing voice. An award-winning part of this is »Shades of Solitude,« featuring over 50 unaccompanied solo works newly composed for her alto voice and premiered by her.
In addition, she has collaborated with the vocal ensemble for early and contemporary music Cantando Admont since 2017. Performances and lectures have taken her to venues including the Salzburg Festival, the Teatro Colón in Buenos Aires, the Vienna Konzerthaus, the Concertgebouw in Amsterdam, the Cologne Philharmonic Hall, the Onassis Center in Athens, the Deutsche Oper Berlin, Wien Modern, Vilnius 700, Klangspuren Schwaz, UC Berkeley, Yale-NUS College in Singapore, New York University, CalArts, and UC Davis.
She has been a member of the Neue Vocalsolisten since January 2025. Helēna Sorokina lives in Vienna.
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