Ava Chenok is a soprano from the Washington D.C. area. She graduated Magna Cum Laude from Occidental College in Los Angeles with a BA in Music, focusing on operatic and classical vocal performance.

She has studied voice for a decade, and performs multiple genres on top of classical, including jazz, rock, and musical theater. She also danced for fourteen years, including ballet en pointe, jazz, and modern.

She has a wide range of performance experience, from the lead role in Bat Boy at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival at 17 years old, to the ensemble in the Pacific Opera Project’s take on Ravel’s L’enfant et les sortilèges, to the lead in the recent premier in New York City of a new experimental rock opera by Bernard Langs, Sacred and Profane Love.

She prides herself on her leadership background, where she has directed and conducted two a cappella groups in high school and college and held other performance related positions of authority.

She is currently in a Master of Musicology program at Brooklyn College.