Tatiana Mills

Tatiana Mills is an emerging operatic soprano and writer with a keen interest in historical voice pedagogy techniques, as well as the intersection of muscle memory and the nervous system with the vocal apparatus, nurtured over the course of 10 years by her previous voice teachers, Vladimir Chernov and Olga Toporkova. Having spent eight years studying vocal technique in France and Austria with Toporkova in addition to her official schooling, Mills’s understanding of pedagogy is informed by a combination of voice science, the study of eighteenth- and nineteenth-century historical documents, and a unique hands-on approach to vocal technique that has its basis in the bel canto school of singing. Mills also has past experience interning in biotechnology labs in both New York and in Cambridge, UK, where her interest in the correlation between the nervous system and the voice began. Fluent in Russian, highly proficient in French, and conversational in German and Italian, Mills is adept in the study of language and conducts her research in multiple languages. In addition to her most recent publication in the Jan/Feb 2026 Issue of the NATS Journal of Singing, Mills runs a weekly newsletter dedicated to the technical and artistic analysis of historic opera recordings as a means of study for young singers, titled “Disciple of Garcia.” Mills has most recently appeared in the role of Miss Jessel in Britten’s Turn of the Screw, and is the recipient of several awards for her artistry. She currently studies with Diana Soviero in New York, and holds an M.M. from the IU Jacobs School of Music, a Diplôme d’Exécution Supérieur from the École Normale de Musique de Paris, and a B.M. from the UCLA Herb Alpert School of music.