Anaïs Reno is in her first year at SUNY Purchase, studying jazz voice, and an Ella Fitzgerald scholar at the college in NYC was born on November 29, 2003, in Geneva, Switzerland. Despite her very young age, Anaïs has been artistically very active, and involved in the performing arts since age 8. After winning the 2016 Forte International Competition’s Platinum Award at Carnegie Hall, Anaïs won Second Place at Michael Feinstein’s Great American Song Book Academy competition in Carmel, Indiana in the summer of 2018, and First Place at the Mabel Mercer Foundation competition, in New York, in March of 2019. In the fall of 2020, Anaïs was presented with the Julie Wilson Award.