Anaïs Reno is a New York City-based jazz singer and composer who studied jazz performance at SUNY Purchase, graduating in May of 2025. She has received numerous accolades, including first place in the Forte International Music Competition when she was 12 years old, the silver medal in the Great American Songbook Competition when she was 14 years old, the gold medal in the Mabel Mercer Competition when she was 15 years old, the Julie Wilson award when she was 16 years old, the Ben Tucker jazz award and silver medal in the American Traditions Competition in 2026, and the Bistro Award for best jazz singer in 2026. Anaïs has performed in venues such as Birdland, Carnegie Hall, Dizzy’s Club, Madison Square Garden, the Caramoor Jazz Festival, the Northwest Jazz Festival with Peter Bernstein, the White Plains Jazz Festival, 54 Below, and PizzaExpress and Ronnie Scott’s as part of the London Jazz Festival, the Edinburgh Jazz Festival, and others. Among her many appearances at Birdland was a week-long engagement filling in for Tierney Sutton in 2022. Anaïs’ debut album, “Lovesome Thing,” celebrating Ellington and Strayhorn, rose to number 6 on the jazz chart in 2021; that same year, she took part in a video with NYCNext singing Billy Joel’s “New York State of Mind” alongside stars including Idina Menzel and Stephen Colbert, and sang "America the Beautiful'' in Citi Field for the Mets/Yankees 9/11 game on national television. In 2022, Gary Smulyan featured Anaïs on the entirety of his album titled “Tadd’s All, Folks,” highlighting obscure Tadd Dameron compositions that include lyrics. She released a live record with London’s PizzaExpress in February of 2024 and recently released her second studio album titled “Lady of the Lavender Mist” under Club44 with Peter Bernstein, David Wong and Joe Farnsworth. Within the next year, she will be making her debut headlining venues located in Argentina, Switzerland, France, Poland, Germany, Czech Republic and more. Her current creative endeavors include writing an album of entirely original music and lyrics, five songs of which she has already performed publicly in a variety of venues.