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Juliane Banse first received instruction on the violin at age five and along with her schooling completed full ballet training at the Zurich Opera House. Beginning with 15, she took voice lessons initially from Paul Steiner, later from Ruth Rohner, Brigitte Fassbaender, and Daphne Evangelatos. Juliane Banse has herself become a sought-after teacher. She has been awarded numerous scholarships and prizes, most recently the Midem Classical Award in Cannes for the new production of the Kafka-Fragmente by György Kurtág with András Keller and for her recording of the orchestral lieder by Charles Koechlin which also received the 2006 Classical Echo Award. After her debut in 1989 as Pamina in the Harry Kupfer production at the Komische Oper in Berlin, other international engagements followed for all the major roles of her discipline, such as Despina, Marzelline, and Sophie. Further roles have been added in the past two seasons: Genoveva, Countess (Marriage of Figaro), Eva (Meistersinger), Fiordiligi (Così fan tutte), Tatjana (Eugen Onegin), and Agathe (Freischütz). Juliane Banse is also frequently seen on the concert stage. She works with conductors such as Previn, Boulez, Järvi, Maazel, Chailly, Rilling, Blomstedt, Harding, Nagano, Welser-Möst, and Harnoncourt. Furthermore, the singer is a regular guest performer giving lieder recitals in the important centres for lieder in Europe. Intensive cooperation has brought Juliane Banse together with many contemporary composers, such as Holliger and Widmann, who have dedicated compositions to the soprano or who have given the premiere performance with her.

Juliane Banse | Agathe | Soprano