Juliane Banse
Soprano Juliane Banse has a varied repertory of opera and concert music and is especially famed for her performances in Mahler's symphonies. She is also a noted educator.
Banse was born in Tettnang, West Germany, on July 10, 1969. She moved with her family to Zurich, Switzerland, as a toddler. Musically talented, she took up the violin at age five and also took ballet lessons, making her stage debut as a dancer at the Zurich Opera House. One critic noted later that even as a singer, she retained the manner of a ballet dancer. Banse switched to voice at 15, taking lessons with Paul Steiner and then with Ruth Rohner at the Zurich Opera House. She moved on to the Musikhochschule in Munich, studing with Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos. Banse took first prize at the Kulturforum competition in Munich in 1989, and she has continued to win major prizes throughout her career.
The Munich prize led to a series of engagements in Mozart roles for Banse at the Komische Oper Berlin. Banse made her recording debut in 1993 on the Jecklin label on a volume in a series of the complete songs of Othmar Schoeck. The Mozart appearances in Berlin brought opera parts around Europe and a regular cast member slot at the Wiener Staatsoper beginning in 1994. That year, she made her debut with the Vienna Philharmonic in a concert presentation of Berg's Lulu Suite. Banse made her U.S. debut the following year, with the St. Louis Symphony in Mahler's Symphony No. 2 in C minor. She has gone on to give Mahler symphony performances under such conductors as Simon Rattle, Pierre Boulez, and Lorin Maazel, among others. Banse has appeared at many major opera houses and has a flourishing career as a lieder singer, having been accompanied by such major pianists as András Schiff, Maurizio Pollini, and Helmut Deutsch. The latter was accompanist on her contributions to a complete cycle of Brahms songs on the CPO label. As of 2022, Banse had appeared on more than 100 recordings, including, early that year, a reading of Hans Werner Henze's Nachtstücke und Arien on the Naxos label. Her recorded output is notable for its breadth, including music from Bach to the contemporary era. Banse has been on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf since early 2017.
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Mahler: Symphonies Nos. 3, 4 & 9 (Live)
Symphonieorchester Des Bayerischen Rundfunks, Gerhild Romberger, Juliane Banse, Bernard Haitink, Augsburger Domsingknaben, Chor des Bayerischen Rundfunks
Klassiek - Released by BR-Klassik on 4 okt. 2019
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Ullmann, V.: Symphony No. 2 / 6 Lieder, Op. 17 / Concerto for Orchestra / Don Quixote Tanzt Fandango
Gürzenich-Orchester Köln, Juliane Banse, James Conlon
Klassiek - Released by Capriccio on 1 jan. 2003
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Mahler, G.: Symphony No. 4 (Edition Staatskapelle Dresden, Vol. 21)
Juliane Banse, Staatskapelle Dresden, Giuseppe Sinopoli
Klassiek - Released by Profil on 1 jan. 2007
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Kurtág: Kafka-Fragmente
Klassiek - Released by ECM New Series on 24 jan. 2006
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Songs Of Debussy And Mozart
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Mahler: Symphony No. 2 in C Minor / Schoenberg: Kol Nidre, Op. 39 / Kurtag: Stele, Op. 33
SWR Sinfonieorchester des Südwestrundfunks
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The Tell-Tale Heart (Live)
Juliane Banse, Netherlands Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Tasmin Little
Klassiek - Released by Challenge Classics on 4 feb. 2022
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Mahler: Symphony No.4
Juliane Banse, The Cleveland Orchestra, Pierre Boulez
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 2000
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Koechlin: Vocal Works With Orchestra
Juliane Banse, Radio-Sinfonieorchester Stuttgart des SWR, SWR Vokalensemble Stuttgart, Heinz Holliger
Klassiek - Released by SWR Classic on 1 jan. 2004
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Hindemith: Das Marienleben, Op. 27
Juliane Banse, Martin Helmchen
Klassiek - Released by Alpha Classics on 8 jun. 2018
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Schumann: Myrten, Op. 25 & Gedichte aus "Liebesfrühling", Op. 37
Juliane Banse, Olaf Bar, Helmut Deutsch
Klassiek - Released by Warner Classics on 13 sep. 2019
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Tief in der Nacht
Juliane Banse, Aleksandar Madžar
Klassiek - Released by ECM New Series on 15 okt. 2010
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Cole Porter: A Celebration
Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern, Dorian Wilson, Juliane Banse
Klassiek - Released by SWR Classic on 17 apr. 2020
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Duette
Juliane Banse, Brigitte Fassbaender
Klassiek - Released by Deutsche Grammophon (DG) on 1 jan. 1995
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Henze: Nachtstücke und Arien, Los caprichos & Englische Liebeslieder
ORF Vienna Radio Symphony Orchestra, Juliane Banse, Narek Hakhnazaryan, Marin Alsop
Klassiek - Released by Naxos on 14 jan. 2022
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Martin: Triptychon
Muriel Cantoreggi, Juliane Banse, German Radio Philharmonic Orchestra, Christoph Poppen
Klassiek - Released by ECM New Series on 26 feb. 2008
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REIMANN, A.: Song Cycles after Schubert, Brahms, Schumann and Mendelssohn (Banse, Cherubini Quartet) (Johann Wolfgang von Goethe - Aribert Reimann - August Wilhelm Schlegel)
Klassiek - Released by Tudor on 1 jan. 1998
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Sutermeister: Orchestral Works, Vol. 2
Juliane Banse, Benjamin Bruns, Staatsphilharmonie Rheinland-Pfalz, Rainer Held
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Reimann, Henze & Rihm: Unanswered Love
Juliane Banse, Deutsche Radio Philharmonie Saarbrücken Kaiserslautern
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Love's Embrace
Juliane Banse, Sebastian Weigle, Munich Radio Orchestra
Klassiek - Released by BR-Klassik on 27 okt. 2017
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Brahms: Lieder (Complete Edition, Vol. 7)
Klassiek - Released by CPO on 1 jan. 2000
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