Valeria (Sokolova) Ore is a native of Yekaterinburg, Russia. She has performed as both a choir director and a member of choral groups, including the Municipal Choir, ensemble Ascension, ensemble Chorale, and folk-jazz ensemble Ekaterina, that toured the former Soviet Union, Germany, and France.

Ore has performed numerous concerts in Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Boston, Denver, Paola, Kansas, and Graz, Austria. She provided the piano accompaniment for students participating in the National Association of Teachers of Singing (NATS and NATSAA), played for solo and ensemble contests; the competitions for the Classical Singer Convention, auditions for the Summer Program of the American Institute of Musical Studies, and performing with several master classes among renowned pianists and singers Denyce Graves, Barbara Bonney, Luana De Vol, Gabriele Lechner, Mark Thomsen, Norman Shetler, and Walter Moore.

Ore has a variety of teaching experience beginning in Yekaterinburg, Russia where for 12 years she was a piano teacher, a piano accompanist and a choir director at the Tchaikovsky Musical College; a choir director, piano accompanist; and a singer in the ensemble of the ancient music Chorale at Gorky Ural State University.

In 2003, she became an adjunct professor at UNLV until 2014 when she was appointed to a full-time position as a Visiting Assistant Professor teaching different levels of functional piano classes and classes for future music educators.

Ore has worked at the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts as a piano accompanist and vocal coach. She continues to advise, consult and play for the Solo & Ensemble competition at the Las Vegas Academy of the Arts while working at UNLV. As a piano teacher, vocal coach, and choir director, Ore has encountered students with little or no background in music and enjoys awakening their interest in the musical world.

A graduate of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, Urals Mussorgsky State Conservatoire and the Tchaikovsky Musical College, Valeria S. Ore holds bachelor’s, master’s, and doctoral degrees in voice, piano and choir conducting. She is a member of the Phi Kappa Phi, the oldest and most selective all-discipline honor society.