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Anna Karasińska graduated from the Music
Academy in Poznań, where she studied voice with Irena
Winiarska. She continued her studies with Joy Mammen at the
Royal Academy of Music in London. She perfected her skills
at numerous master classes given by Brigitte Fassbaender,
Barbara Schlick, Elly Ameling, Nicolai Gedda, Roger
Vignoles, Benno Schollum, Paul Esswood and Emma Kirkby.
She is a prizewinner of the international vocal competition
in Gdańsk (1993), the Mozart Competition in Southport
(1995), and the Bach Competition in Leipzig (1998). She was
among the finalists of the ard Competition in Munich (1998).
She has developed a fine career, with appearances in Poland
and abroad, in countries such as Britain, France, Belgium,
Austria, Jordan and Switzerland. Her most memorable
performances have included Haydn's Nelson Mass with
Liverpool Mozart Players in London's Barbican Centre and the
Church of St. Martin-in-the-Fields, Mahler's Symphony No. 4
in the Tonhalle in Zurich and Mozart's Requiem in major
concert venues in France, as well as at a concert on the
150th anniversary of Chopin's death in the Church of St
Madeleine.
Anna Karasińska appears regularly with leading orchestras
such as the National Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra,
'Sinfonia Varsovia', the Polish Radio Symphony Orchestra and
the Leipziger Barokorchester.
On the operatic stage she has collaborated with such
distinguished conductors as Richard Bonynge, Jacek Kaspszyk,
Andrzej Straszyński and Leopold Hager.
In 2000 Anna Karasińska received the Halina Słonicka
Memorial Award from the opera Foundation and the 'Trubadur'
Opera Lovers Club for the role of Giulietta in Bellini's I
Capuleti e i Montecchi. In the spring of 2002 she appeared
in Debussy's Pelleas et Melisande in Warsaw's Grand Theatre -
National Opera. |