Soriano earned a doctorate in music composition in 2009 from Northwestern University in Chicago as a student of Augusta Read Thomas, Jay Alan Yim and Jason Eckardt.
At Northwestern she also worked with Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail, Oliver Knussen and John Adams.
Her dissertation An Analysis and Contextualization for Resonant Strands, a Cycle of Five Extractable Works for Piano, Bowed Piano and String Quartet analyzes Resonant Strands and provides a historical context for her work by discussing cycles including Carceri d'Invenzione by Brian Ferneyhough, Les Espaces Acoustiques by Gérard Grisey and Opening of the Mouth by Richard Barrett.
[2] In 2013 she studied in Paris and southern France with Kaija Saariaho, Tristan Murail, and Philippe Hurel.
Soriano's music focuses on timbre, and blends spectral, neoromantic, minimalist and complexity trends.