Andreas Karasiak studied voice at the Johannes Gutenberg University in Mainz with Claudia Eder, with whom he continues to work. Concurrently he also studied Baroque music with René Jacobs in Basel. In 1998 he was prize-winner at the Bundeswettbewerb Gesang (Federal Singing Competition) in Berlin. From 1999 to 2002 he was engaged as lyric tenor at the National Theater Mannheim, singing rôles such as Tamino, Ferrando, Belmonte, Jaquino, Alfred (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, Brunswick, Oldenburg, Mainz, Kaiserslautern, Wiesbaden and Weimar. In 2003 he made his début at the Basel Theater as Jupiter in Handel's Semele. Andreas Karasiak has collaborated with a number of leading conductors and with orchestras of similar eminence. Numerous broadcast recordings testify to the high quality of his creative output. At the end of 2003 he participated in a recording of Gluck's L'innocenza giustificata and in Cartellieri's Christmas Oratorio. The following year brought appearances in Schumann's Scenes from Goethe's Faust and as Emilio in Mozart's Il sogno di Scipione), and in Monteverdi's Il ritorno d'Ulisse in patria with the Brussels Théâtre Royal de la Monnaie at the Melbourne International Arts Festival.
