Juliet Schlefer is a Brooklyn-born, Brooklyn-based lyric soprano singing oratorio, chamber music, opera and art song with repertoire ranging from the baroque to the avant-garde. In 2025 she was a Young Concert Artists semi-finalist, the first-place winner of the Chicago-based Musicians Club of Women competition, and a summer vocal fellow at both the Toronto Summer Music Festival and New Music on the Point. In October she returned to The Washington Chorus at the Strathmore Center in Bethesda as the soprano soloist in Bach’s Magnificat and Reena Esmail’s This Love Between Us following her appearance with the chorus in June 2024, in Buenos Aires’ CCK, as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside acclaimed baritone, Will Liverman. Additional 2025 concerts included chamber music in NYC with Composers Concordance and Kyo-Shin-An Arts, recital performances in Philadelphia and Kansas City, and a Messiah at Music in the Nave in Kent, CT.

Juliet received her 2024 Masters of Music degree from the University of Michigan along with the Earl V. Moore Award for Artistic Achievement. Opera roles at UMich included as Aveline Mortimer in the March 2024 productionof Elizabeth Cree by Kevin Puts, directed by Gregory Keller and Kirk Severtson and her Power Center debut in November 2022 as the vixen Bystrouška, in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, directed by Tara Faircloth and Kirk Severtson. Juliet also had a leading role in the workshop premiere of Tom Cipullo’s opera, Hobson’s Choice and was cast as Adele in the University of Michigan’s, 2020 production of Die Fledermaus, directed by Grant Preisser. Read more