Liz Aranda is a light lyric/coloratura soprano. In 2024, she received her Master of Music in Soprano Performance at The Cleveland Institute of Music, studying under Dr. Mary Schiller. She graduated with a Bachelor of Music in Vocal Performance at Northern Arizona University in 2021. Liz grew up in Prescott, Arizona where she began performing at six years old. She participated in competitions, musicals, dance recitals and workshops during her time there.

Liz made her college debut as a Spirit in Mozart’s Die Zauberflöte, and Emmie in Britten’s Albert Herring the following year. In the Fall of 2019, Liz made her premiere professional performance with the Verde Valley Sinfonietta in Sedona, Arizona as the soprano soloist for Beethoven’s Symphony No. 9 and Missa Solemnis Op. 123: Kyrie. She also received third place in the 11 – Upper Classical Treble Division at the National Association of Teachers of Singing Arizona District in the Fall of 2019. Liz was cast in the roles of Nella in Puccini’s Gianni Schicchi and Suor Genovieffa in Suor Angelica simultaneously in the Spring of 2020 at NAU. She received the Lloyd and Sally Hanson Singer/Actor Award of Excellence Scholarship for the 2020-2021 academic year. In her Senior year, she performed the role of Sandrina in Mozart’s La Finta Giardiniera, just before the final recital of her undergraduate degree. She was fortunate enough to perform in every opera production during her undergraduate studies.

She premiered her first masters performance at The Cleveland Institute of Music as a Spirit in Massenet’s Cendrillon, where she also covered the role of La Fée. In 2023 during her second semester of her Masters, she performed the role of Constance in the Cleveland Institute of Musics production of Dialogues des Carmélites. In the summer of 2023, she was selected to participate in The Patti and Allan Herbert Frost School of Music Program at Salzburg where she performed and continued studies under Dr. Mary Schiller in Salzburg, Austria. During her last year at CIM she performed the role of Adele in Die Fledermaus. She moved to Boulder to pursue her second Masters Degree in Speech-Language Pathology at University of Colorado Boulder. She is excited to learn more about vocal function and become the best musician and teacher she can be!