The mezzo-soprano Ekaterina Bazhanova began her artistic career in early  childhood in the classical vocal quartet. She studied at the HfM »Hanns  Eisler« Berlin with Britta Schwarz and Uta Priew, where she  successfully completed her degree with the support of the  Deutschlandstipendium. In 2017 she was awarded the Richard Wagner  Scholarship Foundation. Already during her studies and afterwards she  sung -among others- roles as Olga ("Eugene Onegin"), First Norn  ("Götterdämmerung"), voice of Antonia's mother ("Les contes  d'Hoffmann"), Ernesto ("Il mondo della luna"), Second Alms Seeker/Second  Lay Sister (“Suor Angelica”, Berlin Philharmonic), Composer (“Ariadne  auf Naxos”), Biberhahn (“The Atrocious Feast”), Kubus/Willi (“The House  Between”), Aci (“Polifemo”) , Judith (“La Betulia liberata”) and Sister  Agnes (“Thomas” in Staatsoper unter den Linden). Through numerous  projects and master classes, Ekaterina had the opportunity to work with  important personalities such as Julia Varády, Robert Dean Smith, Marcel  Boone, Wolfram Rieger, Martin Stegner, Michiel Dijkema, Rolf Beck, Tan  Dun, Nicola Hümpel, Barbora Horáková, Max Renne, Kirill Petrenko, Simon  Rattle.