Ronda L. Paoletti is an award-winning soprano who has sung professionally with opera companies including Pensacola Opera, First Coast Opera, Peach State Opera and Columbia Lyric Opera. She is a past winner of the Metropolitan Opera National Council Awards (district), the McCallister Awards (district), First Runner Up in the Bel Canto Competition, and the winner of the Harvey Ringel Award at the NATSAA Professional Singer of the Year Competition, among others.  

She has taught private voice and piano for over 20 years and has a Master of Music degree in Voice Performance from The University of South Carolina. She has done doctoral work in voice at The University of North Texas where she was awarded the Toulouse Graduate Fellowship. She toured South Korea singing recitals and was invited to sing and lecture on Taking Care of Children’s Voices at The Korea Baptist Theological University and Seminary in Daejon, South Korea.  

Ms. Paoletti studied piano privately in college with Dr. Margaret Stewart at Ohio University and has accompanied many of her students on recitals. She taught private piano lessons for five years in the Valwood College Preparatory School’s after school program.  Ronda currently works for FBISD and lives in Sugar Land.