| Biography | Olena Tokar was born in the Ukraine in 1987. She studied singing at the College of Culture and Artin Lugansk (Ukraine) from 2000 to 2006, and participated actively in that citys cultural life. In 2006 Olena Tokar was admitted to the Ukrainian Tchaikovsky National Academy of Musicin Kiev, where her teachers were Z. Buzina and E. Kolosova. Since 2010 she has been a member of Professor Regina Werner-Dietrich's class at the University of Music and Theatre Felix Mendelssohn Bartholdy Leipzig, where she joined the prestigious Master Class programme in 2013.
Olena Tokar has won numerous prizes in renowned competitions: In 2008, she won the Grand Prix in the most prestigious singing competition of the Ukraine, the Kiev International Boris Gmyria Competition. In 2010, she was a finalist in the Ferruccio Tagliavini |