Ekaterina Syurina graduated from the Conducting and Vocal Department of the Tchaikovsky Musical Institute in Ekaterinburg as well as from GITIS in Moscow. While still a student, she made her debut at the New Opera Theatre in Moscow as Gilda in Verdi’s Rigoletto with Dmitry Hvorostovsky. As a soloist of the New Opera Theatre, she performed various principal roles including the title roles in Donizetti’s Maria Stuarda and Rimsky-Korsakov’s Snow Maiden.

The singer’s répertoire also includes Giulietta in I Capuleti e i Montecchi, Amina in La sonnambula and Elvira in I puritani by Bellini, Adina in L’elisir d’amore by Donizetti, Leïla in Les pêcheurs de perles by Bizet, Lauretta in Gianni Schicchi and Mimì in La Bohème by Puccini, Zerlina in Don Giovanni, Pamina in Die Zauberflöte, Servilia in La clemenza di Tito and Susanna in Le nozze di Figaro by Mozart, Olympia in Les Contes d’Hoffmann by Offenbach, Anne Trulove in The Rake’s Progress by Stravinsky, and the soprano parts in Carmina Burana by Orff and Mass in C minor by Mozart.

Since 2003, the singer has regularly cooperated with famous opera houses including La Scala, Metropolitan Opera, Covent Garden, Montpellier National Opera, Wallonia Royal Opera, Monte-Carlo Opera, opera houses of Berlin, Munich, and Hamburg, Bordeaux Opera, Paris National Opera, Giuseppe Verdi Municipal Theatre in Salerno, Huston Opera, San Diego Opera, Michigan Opera Theatre, and Bastille Opera. She has appeared with the London Royal Philharmonic Orchestra, Denmark Radio Symphony Orchestra, Paris Orchestra, as well as at the Saltsburg Festival, Glyndebourne Festival, and Savonlinna Festival.

She has cooperated with Yury Temirkanov, Roger Norrington, Philipp Jordan, Richard Boning, Daniel Harding, Daniel Oren, and other renowned conductors. In December 2010, she toured through Russia with her husband Charles Castronovo in the framework of the project Dmitry Hvorostovsky and His Friends.