Opera and oratorio singer, in her origins she combines the Russian roots of the Ural mountains, Mednogorsk, and the plain of Ukraine, Melitopol, which is twinned with Melito of Naples in Italy.
She studied singing, piano and accordion. She developed her own artistic activity in Europe and, in particular, in Italy, becoming Italian by adoption.
Her love for Italy led her to live in this nation where the artist carries out the promotional activity of opera music and culture in general.
She is the winner of numerous important international and national competitions, awards and recognitions:
- Giuseppe Sciacca International Prize (Italy, 2021)
- A recognation on the side of NewsREMINDER and the European Parliament Italian Office as Ambassador of Italian Culture in the World (Italy, 2020)
- The Remind Award, International Good Practice Award (Italy, 2020)
- The TAOBUK Prize of the International Literature Festival in Taormina for contribution to Art and Culture (Italy, 2020)
- She was nominated as the best newcomer at the International Opera Awards in London (Italy, 2016)
- The prize “Giulietta” as the best female newcomer at the Festival dell’Arena di Verona (Italy, 2015)
- The 1st prize for the competition of AsLiCo for the role of Lucia di Lammermoor (Italy, 2012)
- The 2nd Prize at the Riccardo Zandonai Opera Competition in Riva del Garda (Italy, 2011)
- The Audience Award at the Hans Gabor Belvedere Competition in Vienna (Austria, 2011)
- The 3rd prize at the Maria Caniglia Competition, Sulmona (Italy, 2008)
- “The Triumph Award” (Russia, 2008)
- The 1st Prize at the Competition of Giuseppe di Stefano in ” Musical July in Trapani “(Italy, 2007)
She is a regular guest of the major opera houses and collaborate with the most prestigious conductors.
Ekaterina Bakanova has establish a successful collaboration with a National Symphony Orchestra of the RAI and has performed a several times with Maestro Fabio Luisi, Steven Mercurio and Jurai Valcuha, with the Ensemble Matheus, under the direction of Jean-Christophe Spinosi, with Plácido Domingo, and Mung Whung Chung , Dan Ettinger, Daniele Rustioni, Nello Santi, Daniele Callegari;
She has appeared in the productions of famous staging directors such as Mario Martone, Franco Zeffirelli, Achim Freyer, Calixto Bieito, Robert Carsen, Henning Brockhaus, Richard Eyre, Hugo de Ana, Renoud Doucet, Andrea de Rosa;
After her debut at the Royal Opera House in London as Violetta Valery, Ekaterina Bakanova was praised by the press for her interpretative refinement and since then she has been called to the most prestigious stages, such as those of the Staatsoper of Dresden, the Arena of Verona, the Teatro Real in Madrid, the Teatro Liceo in Barcelona, the Royal Opera in Versailles, the Israeli Opera in Tel-Aviv and the Opera in Zurich, the NCPA Performing Arts Center in Beijing and others.