The dymamic career of soprano Juliane Banse encompasses major operatic roles, orchestral concerts as well as lieder recitals.

A native of Germany, Juliane Banse grew up in Switzerland where, in addition to her voice and violin studies, she trained as a ballerina at the Zurich Opera. She continued her vocal training in Munich with Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos, and was awarded many prizes and scholarships. In 1989 she won First Prize at the singing competition of the Kulturforum in Munich, and in 1993 the Franz Schubert Institute in Vienna awarded her the "Grand Prix Franz Schubert" for her superb lieder interpretations. Jury members that year included Elisabeth Schwarzkopf and Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau.
In 1989 she made her opera debut as Pamina in The Magic Flute at Berlin's Komische Oper and was re-engaged for role of Ilia in Idomeneo. She subsequently appeared at opera houses in Brussels, Salzburg, Glyndebourne, Vienna, Zurich and Cologne, and in recent seasons she has appeared in The Marriage of Figaro, The Magic Flute, Der Rosenkavalier, Pfitzner's Palestrina. Other highlights include her debut with the Bayerische Staatsoper as Pamina, a role she also sang in Vienna, and rave reviews in Zurich for the title role in the 1998 premiere of Heinz Holliger's opera Snow White.
During the 2000/01 season Ms. Banse sang Haydn's Creation with the San Francisco Symphony under Helmuth Rilling; lieder recitals in Berlin, Edinburgh, London, Stuttgart, Salzburg and Zurich; and concerts with the Munich Chamber Orchestra, Vienna Philharmonic, London Philharmonic, and the Philharmonisches Staatsorchester of Hamburg.
Ms. Banse drew rapturous reviews for her 1998 New York recital debut on Lincoln Center's Art of the Song series. Highlights of recent seasons include Britten's Les Illuminations and Schubert's Salve Regina on tour in the United States with the Munich Chamber Orchestra; Mahler's Symphony No. 2 with Simon Rattle and the Vienna Philharmonic at Salzburg, Edinburgh and the BBC Proms in London; Mahler's Symphony No. 8 with the Berlin Philharmonic and Bernard Haitink; and a recital at Carnegie Hall with pianist Maurizio Pollini.
In 1994 she made her Vienna Philharmonic debut with Claudio Abbado in Berg's Lulu Suite and was immediately re-engaged for concerts led by Carlo Maria Giulini and André Previn. She made her American debut in 1995 in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 ("Resurrection") with the Saint Louis Symphony under Leonard Slatkin, and also appeared that season with Raymond Leppard and the Indianapolis Symphony in Haydn's The Seasons. The following year she made her Chicago Symphony debut with Pierre Boulez conducting. In recent years, she has appeared with many distinguished conductors and orchestras including Lorin Maazel and the Vienna Philharmonic, Paavo Järvi and the Philadelphia Orchestra, Riccardo Chailly and the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra, and the Dresden Staatskapelle under Giuseppe Sinopoli with whom she recorded Berg's Seven Early Songs.
Her extensive discography includes duets with Brigitte Fassbaender, a Schumann CD with Olaf Baer and Helmut Deutsch; Berg's Altenberg Lieder and Lulu Suite with Claudio Abbado and the Vienna Philharmonic; and Mahler's Symphony No. 4 with Pierre Boulez and the Cleveland Orchestra. Her recordings can be found on the EMI, Hänssler, Jecklin, Koch, Decca, Teldec, and Deutsche Grammophon labels, and her latest release, for ECM, is a CD of Mozart and Debussy songs and arias, partnered by pianist András Schiff.