Rachel Duval

Artist, Educator/Teacher, Event planner, Musician, Parent, Performer, Producer, Writer/Editor

New York based singer, performance poet, and writer Rachel “Rocky” Duval (she/her) has been performing professionally since the age of 11 and has appeared in opera, television, stage, radio, concert, off-Broadway, and the TEDx stage. Ms. Duval specializes in singing baroque and contemporary classical music, and has performed with many companies, including: The Metropolitan Opera Guild, The Glimmerglass Festival, Seattle Opera, Festival Bach Montreal, among many others. Her debut album of baroque arias, Treacherous Fate and the accompanying music video for Dido’s Lament were described as “absolutely beautiful, vocally and visually” (Deviant Opera), and she won first prize in Japan’s Ise-Shima singing competition (2022). Her first play, Hildegard, Reborn, about St. Hildegard von Bingen premiered at Lincoln Center to a sold out house spring of 2024 and was hailed as “, and she is a resident artist this year at 2B&2C Gallery in the East Village, NY. Rocky is a guest professor of communications at Cooper Union School of Engineering, and has been a guest lecturer at Johns Hopkins, Juilliard, and Riverdale Country School, where she co-produces TEDx Riverdale Country School. The children’s opera series she produced from 2019-2023, Playground Opera, was nominated twice for Opera America’s prestigious Opera Innovation awards.

Ancient music, sound healing, and bringing old art forms to new audiences.

Be the sound you want to hear in the world.

classical music, event production, Hildegard von Bingen, Music, public speaking, speaker coaching

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