Alisa Apreleva is a Russian avant-garde singer, composer, multiinstrumentalist, producer, and poet. Alisa Apreleva's music is rooted in a wide variety of genres: from authentic Eastern Slavic folklore to chamber to jazz to rock to film music. She uses voice and an array of acoustic instruments (cellos, harp, accordion, hang drum, piano, ethnic drums), along with electronic processing, in her compositions, creating the style best described as "acoustic ambient".

 

Alisa Apreleva's most recent project, "Lucidus", includes 11 compositions for voice, drums and three celli, one of which Alisa plays herself. The project exists in two line-ups. The Russian one features three accomplished cellists Pyotr Akimov, Pyotr Suraykin (BSO) and Denis Kalinsky (BSO), who are well known for their rock+cello experiments, Mikhail Smirnov ("Ivan Smirnov trio", "Art Ceilidh") on percussion, and Stanislav Perevesentsev (Moscow "Gogol'" club) 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), Deepak Gopinath (drums, India) and Marte Roel (voice processing, Mexico).  

"Lucidus" is a completely unique sounding and emotive experience for anyone who listens to it. It is a strange, atmospheric mixture of classical, rock, 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 your true self. 


Alisa Apreleva started performing professionally early in her life as a classical singer and pianist. Since 2001, Alisa has acquired popularity as a singer-songwriter and a widely published poet. In 2003-2004 Alisa worked as an actress with “Tample” musical theater (Moscow, Russia). 
 
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. In 2004 Alisa moved to Seattle, USA. Since then she lives between two continents and writes songs in two languages. Starting from 2006, Alisa Apreleva is getting more and more popular around the globe as “the Russian singing cellist wonder”.

In 2006-2008 Apreleva studied film scoring with Hummie Mann ("Robin Hood: Men in Tights", "Year of the Comet", "Dracula: Dead and Lovin It", "Language of the Heart", "Sleepless in Seattle, "Simpsons", "ALF"), within the Pacific Northwest Film Scoring Program. Since 2008 Alisa continues her music studies as a scholarship recipient of Berklee College of Music (Boston, USA). Since 2010 she also studies classical composition with Tibor Pusztai, composer and conductor from Hungary.   

 

Some of the venues Alisa Apreleva has performed at are: Grand Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, Rachmaninov Concert Hall of the Moscow Conservatoire, B2 Club (Moscow, Russia), Webster Hall (NYC, NY), Middle East Downstairs (Cambridge, MA), David Friend Recital Hall of Berklee College of Music (Boston, MA), Old South Church (Boston, MA), Ritz Carlton Hall (Boston, MA), Amante Club (San Francisco, CA), Jewel Box Theatre (Seattle, WA), Dacha Club (Moscow, Russia), Library of Arts (Voronezh, Russia), Bilingua Club (Moscow, Russia), Laboratorio de Arte Alameda (Mexico City, Mexico), Tchaikovsky Concert Hall (Moscow, Russia), DOM cultural center (Moscow, Russia).