Ekaterina Semenchuk

• Honoured Artist of the Republic of Northern Ossetia-Alania
• Recipient of the Special Prize at the Plácido Domingo Competition in Los Angeles (2000)
• Prize-winner at the I International Elena Obraztsova Young Opera Singers' Competition (Hope prize and prize for best performance of a work by a contemporary composer; St Petersburg, 1999)
• Prize-winner at the All-Russian Nadezhda Obukhova Competition (1^st prize)

Ekaterina Semenchuk graduated from the St Petersburg State Rimsky-Korsakov Conservatoire (class of Ye. Gorokhovskaya). She became a soloist with the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers in 1999. In 2001 the singer was a finalist at the BBC Cardiff Singer of the World Competition.
Ekaterina Semenchuk joined the Mariinsky Opera Company in 2007.

Roles she has performed at the Mariinsky Theatre include:
Laura (The Stone Guest)
Marina Mnishek (Boris Godunov)
Konchakovna (Prince Igor)
Ganna (May Night)
Lel (The Snow Maiden)
Boy (The Legend of the Invisible City of Kitezh and the Maiden Fevronia)
Olga (Eugene Onegin)
Polina, Milovzor (The Queen of Spades)
Blanche (The Gambler)
Sonia (War and Peace)
Antonio (Cleopatra)
Fenena (Nabucco)
Maddalena (Rigoletto)
Preziosilla (La forza del destino)
Carmen (Carmen)
Nicklausse, the Muse (Les Contes d'Hoffmann)
Marguerite (La Damnation de Faust)
Didon (Les Troyens)

The singer’s repertoire also includes the roles of Annio (La clemenza di Tito), Charlotte (Werther) and Ascanio (Benvenuto Cellini) in addition to the mezzo-soprano roles in Pergolesi’s Stabat Mater, Beethoven’s Missa Solemnis, Mozart’s Requiem, Verdi’s Requiem, Berlioz’ cantana La Mort de Cléopâtre and dramatic symphony Roméo et Juliette, Mahler’s Second and Third Symphonies, Prokofiev’s Alexander Nevsky cantata, Stravinsky’s Pulcinella, Gubaidulina’s Hour of the Soul concerto for percussion, mezzo-soprano and symphony orchestra, the vocal series Songs and Dances of Death by Musorgsky, Shostakovich’s rom Jewish Folk Poetry, Mahler’s Kindertotenlieder and Berlioz’ Nuits d’été.

Ekaterina Semenchuk is in great demand in international opera. She has collaborated with such outstanding conductors of the present day as Valery Gergiev, Gianandrea Noseda, Seiji Osawa, Mikhail Jurowski, Eliahu Inbal, Gustavo Dudamel, Daniel Barenboim, Jiří Bělohlávek, Yves Abel, Marin Alsop, Leonard Slatkin, Antonello Allemandi and Myung Whun-Chung. Together with the Mariinsky Opera Company, she has toured to China, Great Britain, Germany (Baden-Baden Festspiele, Berlin's Deutsche Oper), Austria (Salzburg Festival), Italy (La Scala), Spain (Teatro Real), Switzerland, the USA (Metropolitan Opera, Carnegie Hall, Kennedy Center) and France (Théâtre du Châtelet) and Israel.
In 2005, Ekaterina Semenchuk performed at the wedding of HRH Charles, the Prince of Wales, and Camilla Parker-Bowles.