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The Russian-born soprano, Ekaterina Protsenko, studied voice as well as lied, oratorio and concert at the MDW - Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien. She took part in several master classes with Krassimira Stoyanova, Ileana Cotrubas, Elena Obraztsova, Giuseppe Sabbatini, Vesselina Kasarova, Robert Holl, Helmut Deutsch, Vladimir Chernov and Sergei Leiferkus to name a few. She was awarded the 3rd prize at the International Haydn Competition in 2022. She is also the prize-winner of the International Singing Competition Kammeroper Schloss Rheinsberg in 2020 and the International Singing Competition Feruccio Tagliavini.
In the autumn of 2019, Ekaterina Protsenko appeared at the Wiener Konzerthaus with the Slovak Radio Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Alexander Polishchuk. In the summer, she performed the role of Second maid in Flotow’s Martha at the jOPERA festival in Austria under the baton of Georg Fritsch and staging by Kammersängerin Brigitte Fassbaender. She also sang L.v. Beethoven's Klärchen-songs alongside Kammersänger Thomas Hampson with the Orchester Wiener Akademie, conducted by Martin Haselböck. In April 2019, she made her debut in the Tonhalle Düsseldorf as the duet partner of Yusif Eyvazov. She also performed excerpts from J.S. Bach's Matthäus-Passion BWV 244 and Robert Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri under the baton of Erwin Ortner in Schönbrunn Palace Theatre. She portrayed roles such as Susanna in W.A. Mozart's Le nozze di Figaro at the Sommerserenaden Graz and in a production of the Universität für Musik und darstellende Kunst Wien, Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte in the South Korean Daegu National theatre, Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte at the Mozarthaus in Vienna, Belinda in H. Purcell's Dido and Aeneas in St. Petersburg and Clarice in J. Haydn's Il mondo della Luna at the jOPERA festival.
In 2022, Ekaterina Protsenko successfully jumped in as Phani in Rameau’s Les Incas du Pérou (Les Indes galantes) at Teatro Amintore Galli in Rimini together with Filarmonica Toscanini under the baton of Giulio Prandi. As for her concert work, Ekaterina sang the soprano part in J.S. Bach's Mass in B minor BWV 232 with Bach Collegium Zürich in Großmüster Zürich and the Vienna Stephansdom and took part in Gerd Kühr’s world premiere Versuch über das Unbegreifliche at Styriarte. She celebrated her debut at the Festival della Valle d'Itria as Amastre in Francesco Cavalli's Il Xerse under the baton of Federico Maria Sardelli and direction of Leo Muscato. She also sang at the “Concerto per lo spirito” with music by Claudio Monteverdi in the Basilica of San Martino with the Baroque orchestra Modo Antiquo. She made her Swedish debut at the International Vadstena Academy Festival as Gelinda in Pollarolo`s Il colore fa la regina at Vadstena gamla teater in 2021. The same year, she also celebrated her debut as Eurydice in Gluck`s Orphée ed Eurydice at Theater an der Wien (Wiener Kammeroper) and gave a solo recital with the Russian baroque orchestra Pratum Integrum in Moscow.
Ekaterina Protsenko also performed 23 concerts on a concert tour in China (Wuxi Grand Theater, Nanjing Poly Grand Theater, Tianjin Grand Theater and Shanghai oriental Art center to name a few) with an operetta programme under the baton of Raphael Schlüsselberg. In 2023, she appeared as Papagena in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte with the Nederlandse Reisopera and received a nomination for the Austrian Music Theatre Award 2023 in the category Best Female Young Artist for Beppi in G. Kühr's Stallerhof at Neue Oper Wien.
From the 2023-2024 season, Ekaterina Protsenko is an ensemble member of the Perm Tchaikovsky Opera and Ballet Theater, where she performs roles such as Oscar in Verdi's Un ballo in maschera), Brigitta in Iolanta and Despina in W.A. Mozart's Così fan tutte, she will also make her role debuts as Lucia in Lucia di Lammermoor, Ann Truelove in Igor Stravinsky's Rake’s progress and Pamina in W.A. Mozart's Die Zauberflöte. |
