She completed her vocal training with Professor Irena Winiarska at the Academy of Music in Poznań; she also graduated with honours from the Royal Academy of Music in London, where she studied with Professor Joy Mammen. She took part in the master courses at Verbier Festival and Academie (1996), XXIV Internationalen Musikseminar (Weimar 1993), and the Schlezwig-Holstein Music Festival (1997), which were run by: Brigitte Fassbaender, Barbara Schlick, Elly Ameling, Nicolai Gedda, Roger Vigmoles, Benno Schollum, Paul Eastwood, Emma Kirkby.
She was awarded at numerous vocal competitions, e.g. she received a special award in Gdańsk (1993), the fourth prize and special award for the best performance of the aria from St Matthew Passion at the International J.S. Bach Competition in Leipzig (1998); she was also a finalist of the International ARD Competition in Munich (1998).
She has toured Europe with concerts; in the series of old music concerts at the Barbican Centre in London she sang in Handel’s Messiah in the church of St Martin in the Fields, she also appeared in Haydn’s Nelson Mass with the Liverpool Mozart Players Orchestra. She has regularly collaborated with many orchestras both in Poland and abroad, e.g. with Sinfonia Varsovia and the Orchestra of the Polish Radio.
Anna Karasińska has been involved in many opera productions in collaboration with such conductors as: Richard Bonynge, Andrzej Straszyński, Leopold Hager and Kai Bumann (as Julia in Bellini’s The Capulets and the Montagues, as Marcelina in Beethoven’s Fidelio). In 2002, she made her debut on the stage of the Polish National Opera Teatr Wielki in Warsaw in the title role in