Juliane Banse
Born in southern Germany and raised in Zurich, soprano Juliane Banse studied first with Paul Steiner and later with Ruth Rohner at the Opernhaus Zürich, before completing her training with Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos in Munich.
She has been a professor at the Mozarteum University Salzburg since 2020/21, and in 2023 took over the direction of the singing class at the Escuela Superior de Música Reina Sofía in Madrid. She also gives masterclasses in Austria and abroad, and participates as a jury member in international competitions.
Her wide-ranging operatic repertoire includes Feldmarschallin (Der Rosenkavalier), Donna Elvira (Don Giovanni), Leonore (Fidelio), Grete (Der ferne Klang) and the title role in Heinz Holliger’s Schneewittchen.
Banse has worked with numerous renowned conductors, including Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Franz Welser-Möst, Claudio Abbado and Manfred Honeck.
Lieder recitals have always been her passion, and have taken her to the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg Festival, Wigmore Hall, Wiener Konzerthaus and Kölner Philharmonie, among others.
