About Juliet Renée Rand

Juliet Renée Rand is a soprano from Southold, New York. She earned her Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance from the Curtis Institute of Music in 2025 and is currently pursuing a Master of Music in Opera Performance at Curtis, where she studies with Elliot Madore. In fall 2025, she made her Curtis Opera principal role debut as Euridice in Monteverdi’s L’Orfeo.

 

An active advocate for contemporary music, Juliet covered the title role in Kaija Saariaho’s La Passion de Simone with Curtis Opera Theater, and performed jazz repertoire and operatic improvisation with the Bandwidth Residency. She has premiered and performed works by Amy Beth Kirsten, Gabriela Ortiz, Peter Damon-Cronmiller, Eddie Jowels, and Ania Vu. As a fellowship award recipient with the Mostly Modern Festival in Saratoga Springs, she collaborated closely with composer Benjamin Edelson on Continuities, an art song cycle for soprano set to the poetry of Walt Whitman and written specifically for her voice.

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Juliet is passionate about collaboration and regularly programs and performs in student recitals with fellow Curtis musicians, partnering with artists across disciplines including clarinet, harp, and most recently bassist Devin O’Brien in Bottesini’s Two Songs for soprano and double bass.

 

She is a teaching artist at the Philadelphia High School for the Creative and Performing Arts and an active church organist and singer. She holds B1-level French proficiency from immersive study at the Alpha-b Language School in Nice, France.