As a member of the Ajax Quartet, she held a residency at the University of Colorado and earned her doctorate. Advised by the Takacs Quartet, the Ajax were the Coltman Chamber Music Competition prize winners and finalists at the Chesapeake Chamber Music Competition. They enjoyed a residency at the Aspen Music Festival & School.

Recent performances include a tour of the UK with Consone Quartet performing ‘The Bridges of Königsberg,’ a newly commissioned sextet by Gavin Bryars broadcast by the BBC and slated for commercial recording, available fall 2025. Locally, Renée has appeared with Handel + Haydn Society, Teatro Nuovo, Seraphic Fire, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Arcadia Players, and Rhode Island Philharmonic. As part of Crescendo Productions’ historically-informed series, Renée has played in cultural sites across New England, including an online video release of Bach’s Ciaccona on viola.

Originally from Los Alamos, New Mexico, Renée received unconventional early tutelage from her violinist grandmother, an Oberlin graduate who swapped beginner violin books for string quartet scores and insisted Renée learn all the parts. As a result, Renée has played cello and viola alongside her primary studies on violin since childhood. She and her husband, cellist Guy Fishman, currently reside in Somerville, MA.