On April 17, 2023, Russian-American bass and educator Nikita Storojev passed away at the age of 73. Born in 1950 in Kharbin, China, his family moved back to Soviet Russia five years later. After initially studying philosophy at the University of Sverdlovsk, he shifted to music and studied voice at the Mussorgsky Conservatory in Yekaterinburg, and later at the Moscow {…}