Alisa Apreleva is a Russian-American singer, composer, poet. She was born April 26th 1982 in Nevinnomyssk, Russia. Alisa performs professionally since very early in her life: as a singer of children’s pop-music ensemble “A + B” (Ivanovo, Russia), member of children’s classic choir of the music school named after A. Skryabin (Moscow, Russia), pianist, composer, poet. In 2001 Alisa started to perform as a singer-songwriter, using guitar to accompany herself. During years 2002-2006 Alisa was the leader of “Heavy Water Factory” (“Fabrica Tyazholoy Vody”) indie band. In 2003-2004 Alisa worked as an actress with the “Tample” music theater (playing the allegoric character of the Hundred-Year War in rock opera “Joahn d’Ark”). 

 

In 2003 Alisa graduated cum laude from the Lomonosov Moscow State University with Master’s Degree in Linguistics and Education and entered the post-graduate school. Earlier, during her third year in the University, Alisa, unbeknownst even to her parents, entered a music college to study contemporary vocals. Alisa’s strong-willed parents weren't happy with their daughter’s desire to become a professional musician. But, having tried several professions (including journalist, a forensic linguist, a middle-school teacher and a glamour magazine editor), Alisa decided to dedicate her life to music. 

 

In 2004 Alisa moved to Seattle, USA. Since then she lives between two continents and writes songs in two languages. Having tried cello for the first time in December 2005, and self-taught since then, Alisa now is getting more and more popular around the globe as a “Russian singing cellist wonder”. 

 

Created especially for Alisa’s breathtakingly beautiful voice, her songs are the strange, atmospheric mixture of classic, rock, free jazz, ethnic and sacred elements, which takes you beyond the point of just listening to the music and gives you a chance to go for a mystical journey toward true yourself. 

 

Alisa's most recent project, "Lucidus", includes compositions for voice, percussion and three celli, one of which plays Alisa herself. The project exists in two line-ups: the Russian one features two accomplished cellists Peter Akimov and Peter Suraykin, who are well known for their rock+cello experiments, as well as Stanislav Perevesentsev as a sound producer; the American line-up consists of Berklee-associated musicians - Dean Capper (cello, USA), Halley Feaster (cello, USA), Andrés Marin (drums and percussion, Costa Rica) and Marte Roel (voice processing, Mexico).  

 

Currently Alisa studies music therapy, composition and voice at Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA). Alisa has two kids - Matvey, born in 2007, and Anna, born in 2008.