About Juliet Renée Rand

Juliet Renée Rand, a 21-year-old soprano, from Southold, N.Y., entered Curtis Institute of Music in 2021 and is the Barbara Moskow Fellow. Ms. Rand will be receiving her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance in the spring of 2025. She studies with Sherry Overholt and coaches with Miloš Repický, Eric Owens, Grant Loehnig, Mark Markham, and Ting Ting Wong. 

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For Curtis Opera Theatre, Rand appeared as Pepík (The Cunning Little Vixen), La Dame élégante (Les Mamelles de Tirésias) and has performed in L'Allegro, il Penseroso ed il Moderato, as well as in the choruses of Così fan tutte, L’elisir d’amore, and Ariodante. Additionally, she sang Dominic Argento's song cycle, To Be Sung Upon the Water with Simon G. Bakos, clarinet, and Ting Ting Wong, piano. This past summer, she covered the role of Alcina (Alcina) as a member of the Chautauqua Opera Conservatory. She has also performed Despina (Così fan tutte) and Pamina (Die Zauberflöte) with the Queens Summer Vocal Institute. 

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At Curtis in the fall of 2024, Ms. Rand performed the scene “Vous ne savez pas où je vous ai menée” from Debussy’s Pelléas et Mélisande, Argento’s To Be Sung Upon the Water and premiered a new piece by Curtis composition student Delfin Demiray titled, “wreck.repair.repeat.”

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In the spring, Ms. Rand will appear in three performances with the Curtis Opera Theater. In February, she will perform one of the Due Ragazze in Mozart’s Le nozze di Figaro, conducted by Nicholas McGegan and directed by Marcus Shields. In April, she will perform the role of First Sheep in Bernstein’s Candide, conducted by David Charles Abell and directed by Emma Griffin. In May, she will perform as part of the vocal trio in Amy Beth Kirsten's Savior, a theatrical work inspired by the mystical life and death of Joan of Arc.

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Ms. Rand is an organist and singer for St. Patrick's Church in Southold, N.Y., and she also sings and has played the organ for Newtown Square Presbyterian Church in Philadelphia.