Few artists of her generation have achieved success in such diverse areas with such a wide-ranging repertoire as the soprano Juliane Banse. Her opera repertoire spans roles from the Feldmarschallin, Countess in Le Nozze di Figaro, Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira, Vitellia, to Genoveva, Leonore, Tatiana, Arabella, and Grete (Schreker’s Der ferne Klang). She achieved her artistic breakthrough at the age of 20 as Pamina at the Komische Oper Berlin in a production by Harry Kupfer. Her performance as Snow White at the Zurich Opera House in the world premiere of the opera of the same name by Heinz Holliger, with whom she has always had a close collaboration, is also unforgettable.

Born in southern Germany and raised in Zurich, the artist initially took lessons with Paul Steiner, later studying with Ruth Rohner at the Zurich Opera House. She then completed her studies with Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos in Munich. She teaches as a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg and took over the leadership of the vocal class at the Escuela Reina Sofia in Madrid in the winter semester of 2023. In addition, she gives masterclasses in Germany and abroad and is a sought-after jury member at international competitions.

In the concert field, the artist performs with a wide-ranging repertoire, which has brought her together with renowned conductors, including Lorin Maazel, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Franz Welser-Möst, Marin Alsop, Zubin Mehta, and Manfred Honeck. Most recently, Manfred Trojahn composed the chamber music version of the work 4 Women from Shakespeare specifically for her voice. In São Paulo, in June 2022, she performed Heinz Holliger's composition Dämmerlicht under the baton of the composer, and in September 2022, his composition Puneigä in Geneva. In 2024, she will perform with the Hong Kong Sinfonietta under the baton of Christoph Poppen, featuring selected songs by Richard Strauss and Mahler's Lieder eines fahrenden Gesellen.

Lieder recitals and chamber music have always been a staple of her schedule. Together with dancer István Simon, she regularly performs singing and dancing in her acclaimed projects Winterreise and Mozart – Selig neben dir, accompanied on piano by Alexander Krichel and choreographed by Andreas Heise.

In the opera field, Juliane Banse recently appeared in Cologne in the revival of Walter Braunfels' Jeanne d’Arc in the title role and in Zurich in the world premiere of Heinz Holliger's opera Lunea. Additionally, she performed as the Feldmarschallin in Strauss' Der Rosenkavalier, a long-desired role for the artist. Notable engagements include leading roles in the monodrama The Tell-Tale Heart by Dutch composer Willem Jeths at the Concertgebouw, in Grigori Frid's The Diary of Anne Frank at the Theater an der Wien, in Poulenc's mono-opera La Voix Humaine at the Staatsoper in Berlin and the Cologne Opera, and as Elsa von Brabant in Wagner's Lohengrin in Nantes and Angers. In the USA, she was recently seen as Rosalinde (Die Fledermaus) in Chicago and as Zdenka in Strauss' Arabella at the MET in New York. In the 2024/25 season, she will reprise the chamber play September Sonata (as Ellice Staverton) by Manfred Trojahn under the baton of Vitali Alekseenok (directed by Johannes Erath) at the Deutsche Oper am Rhein/Düsseldorf.

Numerous recordings by the artist have won awards, including two Echo Klassik awards: Braunfels' Jeanne d’Arc with the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra under the baton of Manfred Honeck (World Premiere Recording of the Year) and Mahler's 8th Symphony with the Tonhalle Orchestra Zurich under David Zinman. In February 2017, her critically acclaimed CD Unanswered Love was released, featuring works by Reimann, Rihm, and Henze, some recorded for the first time and dedicated to her, which she recorded with the Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern and Christoph Poppen. With the Munich Radio Orchestra, she recorded the CD Im Arm der Liebe, featuring works by Braunfels, Korngold, Marx, and Pfitzner. Hindemith's Marienleben is a work particularly dear to her, which she recorded on CD with Martin Helmchen. Recent projects include the release of Holliger's Lunea with Christian Gerhaher (label: ECM) and Hindemith's Cardillac (label: BR Klassik).

For more information, please visit the artist’s personal website at www.julianebanse.de.