Jewish-American tenor Elias Berezin is a California native. Based in Los Angeles, he has sung with organizations all around the state specializing in operatic and concert works.

The ‘24/’25 season finished with a recital tour of California entitled Growing Up, featuring works by Liszt, Rachmaninoff, Strauss, and the epic Vaughan Williams song cycle Songs of Travel. Other highlights of the year included a debut with LA Opera Connects bringing opera to high schools throughout the SoCal area, a role debut as Macduff in Macbeth with Guild Opera Company, and a return to Music at Westwood as tenor soloist in Messiah.

Recent operatic highlights include Danilo in The Merry Widow at Mission Opera, Luigi in Il Tabarro and Ferrando in Cosí fan tutte with Guild Opera, Eisenstein and Dr. Falke in Die Fledermaus with Pacific Lyric Association, and Tamino in Die Zauberflöte with Landmark Opera. A proponent of new music, Berezin created leading roles as The Inventor in Ian Dicke’s ROMAN with Synchromy and Autumn in Joseph-Nathaniel Cuenca’s SCHISM at UCR Arts.

 On the concert stage, Berezin has sung tenor solos in Handel’s Messiah and Vaughan Williams’ Dona Nobis Pacem with Music at Westwood; Mozart’s Coronation Mass, Messiah, Mozart’s Requiem, and Haydn’s The Creation with the Palisades Symphony; Bach’s Cantata 61 “Nun komm, der Heiden Heiland,” and Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass with Soli Deo Gloria; and in concerts of arias with Opera Italia.

 Elias is a recipient of grant support from Opera Buffs, and was a finalist in the Redlands Bowl Young Artist Competition. He has appeared as a young artist with the Boston Wagner Institute, Source Song Festival, Songfest, and the Hawaii Performing Arts Festival. He received an M.M. from the University of Redlands, a B.M. from UC Irvine, and has amassed over a decade of teaching experience now holding voice-teaching positions at Corona del Mar High School and Trabuco Hills High School. He maintains an active private studio in Hollywood.