Madrid, January 11, 2023.- The Reina Sofía School of Music will have the German soprano Juliane Banse at the head of the “Alfredo Kraus” Singing Chair Fundación Ramón Areces from the next academic year 2023-2024, to take over from Professor Susan Bullock CBE. Banse thus joins the prestigious list of artists who have directed this chair: Alfredo Kraus, Teresa Berganza, Tom Krause, Ryland Davies, Francisco Araiza and her predecessor Susan Bullock CBE.
Juliane Banse has a solid artistic career and, in the field of teaching, since 2020 she has been a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg, in addition to regularly giving master classes in different countries.
The “Alfredo Kraus” Singing Chair Fundación Ramón Areces was created in the academic year 1994-1995. Throughout these years, 102 students from 23 nationalities have trained in it. Among them are outstanding artists such as Celso Albelo, Aquiles Machado, Iwona Sobotka, Ismael Jordi, Maria Espada, Davinia Rodríguez and Tatiana Melnychenko, among others.
Coinciding with this new addition to the faculty of the Reina Sofía School, the registration period has been opened for the selection auditions for students of the academic year 2023/2024 of the singing chair. All those interested in studying at the School have until February 21 to register.
Registration and information about the admission process, here
JULIANE BANSE
Few artists of her generation are as successful as Juliane Banse in so many areas of such diverse repertoire. Her operatic repertoire ranges from Feldersmarchallin, FigaroGräfin, Fiordiligi, Donna Elvira, Vitellia to Genoveva, Leonore, Tatjana, Arabella, Marschallin and Grete (Schreker’s Der ferne Klang) and Schneewittchenin by Heinz Holliger.
Born in southern Germany and raised in Zurich, the soprano began her training with Paul Steiner, later with Ruth Rohner at the Zurich Opera, and completed her studies with Brigitte Fassbaender and Daphne Evangelatos in Munich. She was a professor at the Robert Schumann Hochschule in Düsseldorf from 2016 to 2021, and since the winter semester 2020-2021, she has been teaching as a professor at the Mozarteum in Salzburg. She also offers master classes abroad and participates as a jury member in international competitions.
The artist has worked with numerous renowned conductors, such as Lorin Maazel, Kent Nagano, Riccardo Chailly, Bernard Haitink, Franz Welser-Möst, Claudio Abbado and Manfred Honeck. Lieder recitals have always been her passion and have taken her to the Schubertiade Schwarzenberg, Wigmore Hall in London, Konzerthaus in Vienna, Kölner Philharmonie, Boulez Hall in Berlin and Madrid, among others.
As of the 2023-2024 academic year, she will take over as Professor of the Alfredo Kraus Singing Chair Fundación Ramón Areces of the Reina Sofía School of Music in Madrid.
