MY NAME IS MILANA AND I AM A BRADFORD-BASED SOPRANO, IMPROVISER, PROJECT CURATOR, AND VOICE TEACHER.
UPCOMING EVENTS
“MILANA SARUKHANYAN HAS A CAPTIVATING STAGE PRESENCEAND HER ACTING THROUGH SONG IS OUTSTANDING; AS THE PIECE REACHED A CLIMAX IN 'DEATH' AT THE CLOSE OF THE WORK, YOU HAD THE FEELING THAT SHE HADPERFECTLY EXPRESSED THE ESSENCE OF WHAT THE COMPOSER WAS LOOKING FOR, ELOQUENTLY CONVEYING THE ANTICIPATION OF DEATH.”
Milana Sarukhanyan is a Bradford-based Ukrainian classical singer, improviser and a vocal coach. Her speciality is Bel Canto opera, classical and contemporary vocal repertoire and free improvisation.
Her career highlights include appearances on BBC Radio 3, Royal Festival Hall, Susie Sainsbury Theatre, Teatro del’Opera di Roma, Palau de la Música Catalana, Santander Festival Hall, Teatro del Giglio and Glazunov Concert Hall.
Milana began singing as a young child in the Ukraine and after two years at the Rimsky-Korsakov State Conservatoire in St. Petersburg, Russia, she relocated to London where she studied at the Royal Academy of Music and graduated with First-class Honours in 2018 and a Master of Arts Diploma in 2020
Despite her rich artistic background in opera and chamber vocal repertoire, she is a passionate advocate of free improvisation and experimental staging. In 2022, Milana curated a staged experimental improvisation ‘The Artist is Present 2.0: Musical Response’ which had been performed numerous time across Lithuania, Germany and the UK.
As an improviser, Milana has appeared on stages such as: Cafè OTO (London), Nilsson (Düsseldorf), Witzli-Poetzli (Antwerp), and the Hundred Years Gallery (London). In 2022, she became a member of London Improvisers Orchestra, established by Butch Morris in the 1990s.
