Andreas Karasiak
Tenor
Andreas Karasiak studied voice at Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with Prof. Claudia Eder, with whom he continues to work. Concurrently he studied Baroque music with René Jacobs in Basel.
From 1999 to 2002 the lyric tenor was engaged at the National Theatre Mannheim where he sang roles such as Tamino, Ferrando, Belmonte, Jaquino, Alfred/Die Fledermaus, Schwan/Carmina burana, Testo/Combattimento di Tancredi e Clorinda (Monteverdi) and Uriel/The Creation. He has also appeared at the opera houses in Stuttgart, Braunschweig, Oldenburg, Mainz, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden and Weimar and has worked with stage directors such as Katharina Thalbach and George Tabori. At the Basel Theatre he sang Jupiter in Handel’s Semele under the baton of Konrad Junghänel. Furthermore, he sang the role of Bazzotto in Benda's Il buon marito in Bilbao under the baton of Martin Haselböck.
Andreas Karasiak has performed with Rafael Frühbeck de Burgos, Bruno Weil, Hanns-Martin Schneidt, Frieder Bernius, Marcus Creed, Helmuth Rilling, Hermann Max, Sylvain Cambreling, Gustav Leonhardt, Jan Willem de Vriend, Ton Koopman, Philippe Herreweghe, Michael Hofstetter, Andreas and Christoph Spering, Jun Märkl, Hans-Christoph Rademann, Philippe Pierlot, Michael Schneider, Adam Fischer, Pierre Cao, Martin Haselböck, and David Zinman. He has appeared with orchestras such as the Akademie für Alte Musik Berlin, Concerto Köln, the Balthasar-Neumann-Ensemble and the Freiburg Baroque Orchestra, as well as with the Dresden Kreuzchor, Thomanerchor Leipzig and Knabenchor Hannover.
CD recordings with ensembles such as La Stagione Frankfurt, the Orchestre des Champs Elysées/Philippe Herreweghe, the RIAS Chamber Choir, the Thomanerchor Leipzig, and the Amsterdam Baroque Orchestra/Ton Koopman testify to the high quality of his creative output.
Recent highlights include appearances at the Feldkirch Festival (Don Ottavio/Don Giovanni, with Thomas Hengelbrock); Salzburg Festival, Beethovenfeste Bonn and Musikfest Bremen (Agenore/Il re pastore, with Thomas Hengelbrock); with the Thomanerchor Leipzig (Bach’s b-minor Mass) and the Dresdner Kreuzchor (Christmas Oratorio); at the NDR Hamburg (Draghi’s La lira d’Orfeo with the Elbipolis Baroque orchestra); with the Wiener Akademie in Mexico, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, New York, Vienna, Sevilla, Baden-Baden, and Munich (St Matthew Passion/Evangelist with Martin Haselböck); in Tokyo (Die schöne Müllerin); at the Niedersächsische Musiktage (Haydn Il trionfo del tempo e del disinganno, with Andreas Spering), in Espoo/Finland with Tapiola Sinfonietta (Christmas Oratorio); in Firenze with the Orchestra Maggio Musicale Fiorentino/Peter Schreier; in Milan with the Orchestra Sinfonica di Milano Giuseppe Verdi (St. John Passion/Evangelist); at the Konzerthaus Berlin (Christmas concerts with the Dresdner Kreuzchor and the Konzerthaus Orchestra) and with the Netherlands Bach Society and Jos van Veldhoven (Haydn’s The Creation); the world premiere of Harald Weiss’ Requiem Schwarz vor Augen und es ward Licht with the boys choir Hannover and the NDR Radiophilharmonie Hannover; Bachs Johannespassion with the Thomanerchor and Georg Christoph Biller at the Bachfest Leipzig.
Besides his concert engagements in 2011/12 he performs the title role in Monteverdi’s “Il ritorno d’Ulisse in patria” under Christoph Spering’s baton at the Theater in Münster (Germany).
SEASON 2011/2012
