Soprano Juliane Banse has a varied repertory of opera and concert music and is especially famed for her performances in Mahler's symphonies. Banse took first prize at the Kulturforum competition in Munich in 1989. 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 a volume in a series of the complete songs of Othmar Schoeck. Banse has a flourishing career as a lieder singer, having been accompanied by such major pianists as András Schiff and Helmut Deutsch. The latter was accompanist on her contributions to a complete cycle of Brahms songs on the CPO label. In 2022, Banse appeared on a reading of Hans Werner Henze's Nachtstücke und Arien. Banse has been on the faculty of the Robert Schumann Hochschule Düsseldorf since early 2017.