Anaïs Reno has been studying music at 92Y’s School of Music since she was eight years old, and is among the school’s Recanati-Kaplan Scholars for exceptionally gifted and talented students. She is currently a drama student at New York City’s Laguardia High School for the Performing Arts. Born in Geneva, Switzerland, Anaïs’ love of jazz and the American Songbook has had her active in the performing arts from a very young age with great success. Notable accomplishments include First Prize competition wins at the 2016 Forte International Competition at Carnegie Hall and the Mabel Mercer Foundation competition in 2019, and Second Prize at Michael Feinstein’s Great American Songbook Academy competition in 2018.

Anaïs began studying voice with her father, a former opera singer, and has been a voice and music student of 92Y’s Sarah Tolar since 2013. She began performing with prominent professionals and in high profile venues at age 10, and has performed her own compositions with the New York Philharmonic at David Geffen Hall, made her Rose Hall debut at the Cabaret Convention at Lincoln Center, and has sung with Billy Stritch, Catherine Russell and Clint Holmes at NJPAC. At 13, Anaïs had the first of three solo shows at Feinstein’s 54 Below with Billy Stritch and Tedd Firth. She made her Birdland debut last June, and returned in December with a solo show of the music of Billy Strayhorn and Duke Ellington—the composers featured on her first album, to be recorded this summer.

Tedd Firth is a New York City based musical director, pianist, and arranger. As musical director and accompanist he has appeared in concert with Bernadette Peters, Michael Feinstein, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Marilyn Maye, Liza Minnelli, Tom Wopat, Barbara Cook, Maureen McGovern, Elaine Paige, Christine Ebersole, Leslie Uggams, Joshua Bell, Melissa Errico, John Lloyd Young, Linda Lavin, Lucie Arnaz, Lee Ann Womack, Faith Prince, Paulo Szot, Betty Buckley, Karen Akers, Mary Cleere Haran, Margaret Whiting, Carol Sloane, and of course, Anaïs Reno.

Among the jazz musicians he has performed or recorded with are John Pizzarelli, Houston Person, Frank Wess, Mark Whitfield, Red Holloway, Benny Golson, and Joe Morello.

Recent highlights include being the musical director for the reunion of the original Broadway cast of Into The Woods at the Segerstrom Center For The Arts in Costa Mesa, CA as well as serving as musical director for Michael Feinstein’s Jazz and Popular Song concert series at Jazz at Lincoln Center.

New York appearances include Carnegie Hall, Lincoln Center, the Blue Note, Birdland, the Iridium, the Algonquin, the Cafe Carlyle, and Feinstein’s at the Regency. Numerous national appearances include a performance at the White House.

As an arranger and orchestrator, Tedd’s work has been performed by all major American symphony orchestras. In 2013, Tedd was commissioned by the New York Pops to create new orchestrations for A Charlie Brown Christmas which has had numerous performances across the country in subsequent years.

Television appearances include The Today Show, Live From Lincoln Center, and All My Children.