Juliet Schlefer attends the 2025 TSM Academy courtesy of the Helen Sinclair Fellowship.

Hometown: Brooklyn, New York

Juliet Schlefer is a Brooklyn-born, lyric soprano who recently received her Master’s of Music degree (2024) from the University of Michigan, along with the Earl V. Moore Award for Artistic Achievement. An accomplished performer, Juliet enjoys singing opera, oratorio, chamber music, and song with repertoire ranging from the baroque to the avant-garde. She is the 2025 winner of the Musicians Club of Women Competition, and last summer, Juliet performed in Buenos Aires’ CCK as the soprano soloist in Mendelssohn’s Elijah alongside acclaimed baritone Will Liverman. She is currently creating and performing multi-dimensional recitals with her collaborators to take on tour. 

Juliet’s recent collaborative performance highlights include “In Search of Her”, an exploration of womanhood combining Faure’s Chanson d’Eve and Heggie’s Eve Songs with dance and projection, created and produced by Muse Ye, “Hypothetical Love” featuring American women composers and Messiaen’s Chants de terre et de ciel with Sarah Thune, and à la Dada, a revitalized version of the classic Dada cabaret. Larger works include Mahler’s Second and Fourth Symphonies, Barber’s Knoxville Summer of 1915, Villa-Lobos’s Bachianas Brasilieras, No. 5, Philip Glass’s Music in 12 Parts, and Steve Reich’s Tehillim. Opera experience includes Elizabeth Cree as Aveline Mortimer by Kevin Puts, directed by Gregory Keller and Kirk Severtson; the vixen Bystrouška, in Leoš Janáček’s The Cunning Little Vixen, directed by Tara Faircloth and Kirk Severtson; Barbarina in Le nozze di Figaro with Opera Neo; and Alice Hobson in the workshop of Tom Cipullo’s Hobson’s Choice.