Singing sensation Anaïs Reno, who has had a rapidly growing career as a singer with a love for jazz and the Great American Songbook, is joined by Jazz pianist, composer and educator Pete Malinverni.
Anaïs has been artistically very active, 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 the summer of 2018 being, at 14, the youngest contestant ever, First Place at the Mabel Mercer Foundation competition, in New York. She made her Rose Hall in Lincoln Center in the Cabaret Convention at age 15, with KT Sullivan, among many other famous personalities in the Cabaret world. She also sang at NJPAC with Billy Stritch and Catherine Russell and has had several sold-out solo shows at Feinstein's 54 Below and at Birdland, with Billy Stritch, Tedd Firth and Emmet Cohen.
For this special show on the last night of EFG London Jazz Festival, Anaïs will present music from her new album, recorded at the same venue in summer 2023.
"Reno delivers with rare maturity throughout and delivers with uncanny depth on the melancholy torch song "I'm Never Happy Any More.” And she swings with ferocity and sass of an Anita O'Day on the up-tempo closer, "Never Been In Love.” - Bill Milkowski, Downbeat