studied classical singing at the Franz Liszt Academy of Music in Weimar and graduated with both an artistic and pedagogical diploma. The Dresden-born alto then became a member of the Cologne Young Chamber Opera. She gained further qualifications in chamber music courses with Norman Shetler, with bel canto singer William Matteuzzi and in a master class with Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.

Karin Lasa has sung in contemporary music theater productions, at the “Vocalise” festival, at the “Schlössernacht” in Potsdam and several times as a soloist with the Potsdamer Singakademie. As part of the “World Concerts” concert series, she performed Pergolesi's Stabat Mater with the Odessa Chamber Philharmonic Orchestra at the Gewandhaus Leipzig. She regularly sings the alto part in performances of great sacred works, cantatas, masses and oratorios as well as choral works from the Romantic period, such as Mendelssohn's Elijah and Rossini's Petite Messe solennelle, working with various choirs and musicians from renowned orchestras, such as the orchestra of the Deutsche Oper and the Komische Oper Berlin. At concerts of the Deutsche Philharmonie Berlin in Berlin Cathedral and in the Nikolaikirche Rostock, the contralto was also part of the soloist ensemble in the performance of Mozart's Requiem as well as Beethoven's 9th Symphony in the Rudolf-Oetker Halle Bielefeld, in the Great Hall of the “Glocke” in Bremen and the Laeiszhalle in Hamburg.

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