<— Ekaterina Maslakova has received her first musical training in the age of three, starting as a choir singer in Bolshoi Theater children choir and later picking up flute and piano as well. A graduate of the Moscow Tchaikovsky Conservatory, Rossini Conservatory of Pesaro and Hochschule für Musik Nürnberg, she has been a student of internationally acclaimed singers such as Valeria Esposito, Brigitte Geller and Alexeï Martynov as well as honed her skills at mastercourses held by Mariella Devia, José Carreras, Mario Diaz and Elizabeth Norberg-Schulz. She has participated in the 2019-2020 season of the Opera Studio of Teatro Lirico Sperimentale di Spoleto and in Macerata Opera Festival. Ekaterina has performed on stage, among others, the parts of Mimì (La Bohème), Contessa (Le Nozze di Figaro) and Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni) on Russian, Italian and German stages; not to mention her skill at interpreting contemporary music -- for instance, in the 2022-2023 season of Staatstheater Nürnberg Ekaterina sang the main roles in «Verflucht» by Sarah Nemtsov and Stephan Winkler's «Tongs and Bones». for all enquiries: please contact *** «Ekaterina showed not only extroverted distress, but also inner incandescence in cantabile form ...» -- Neue Musikzeitung