Yekaterina Lynch is a California-based soprano currently completing her undergraduate degree at UCLA’s Herb Alpert School of Music. She spent several years at San Francisco Conservatory of Music’s Pre-College Program, and studied at the prestigious Odessa Conservatory in Ukraine. Having received both the Elaine Krown Klein and Mimi Alpert Feldman scholarships at UCLA, she covered the principal role of Maria in Richard Danielpour’s 2024 premiere of The Grand Hotel Tartarus. In 2023, she took on the role of Echo in Kay Rhie’s Quake premier, as well as Damon in Handel’s Acis and Galatea. Partial roles include Meg from Verdi’s Falstaff, Mère Marie from Poulenc’s Dialogues of the Carmelites, and Rosalinda from Die Fledermaus.

An avid new-music vocalist, Yekaterina most-recently performed Pierrot lunaire in full for Schoenberg’s 150th anniversary in UCLA’s Schoenberg Hall. In addition to opera, Yekaterina is currently the music director of Con Brio, one of UCLA’s student-led string orchestras, and she was Associate Director of Opera UCLA’s production of Handel’s Rodrigo.