Zoia Sorel was born in Kyiv, Ukraine, and began her violin studies at the age of six. She holds a master’s degree from the Tchaikovsky National Music Academy of Ukraine, where she studied under Bohodar Kotorovich and Bogdana Pivnenko. Further she studied with Arkadij Winokurow and Josef Sabaini at the Anton Bruckner Private University in Linz, Austria, and completed a postgraduate degree at the University of Music and Performing Arts Vienna in the class of Dora Schwarzberg.

Zoia is a prizewinner of numerous international competitions and scholarships, excelling both as a violinist and violist, such as the Scholarship of the President of Ukraine for talented students and the Edith Rebhahn Scholarship from Anton Bruckner Private University, the Gnesiny Chamber Music Competition in Russia, the "New Names of Ukraine" competition, the "Youth & Music in Vienna" festival in Austria, the Grand Prize Virtuoso Competition in Belgium, the IV Concorso Musicale Internazionale Melos in Italy, and the V London International Music Competition Melos in Great Britain and so on.

From 2018 to 2023, Zoia was the 1st violin in a chamber orchestra in Bad Füssing, Germany, where she performed regular solos with orchestra, chamber music, and regularly substituted for Kapellmeister as well as concertmaster. Now based in Munich, she focuses on teaching and regularly performing solo- and chamber music concerts.

As a soloist, chamber musician, and concertmaster, Zoia has also performed at international music festivals including the Brucknerfest in Linz and the Reverb Festival in Regensburg. She has also given concerts and recitals in China, Austria, Italy, Germany, Slovakia, Ukraine, Montenegro, and other countries. In 2014, she founded the award-winning chamber music ensemble “Solter Plus” and, in 2020, the “Astoro Ensemble”.