Renee Rosnes was born in Regina Saskatchewan and grew up in North Vancouver, British Columbia. She began piano lessons at age three and became interested in jazz while in high school. After graduation she matriculated at the University of Toronto and, in 1985, received a grant from the Canadian Council for the Arts to continue her studies in New York City.

Shortly after arriving in the Big Apple, Rosnes became a member of Out of the Blue, a group put together by the Blue Note record label to showcase their younger musicians. During the late 1980s and into the 1990s she was pianist with bands led by Joe Henderson, Wayne Shorter, James Moody, J.J. Johnson and Bobby Hutcherson. She has been a member of bassist Ron Carter’s Foursight Band since 2011.

In 2020 Rosnes founded and is pianist and musical director of the group Artemis, along with Ingrid Jensen, Nicole Glover, Noriko Ueda and Allison Miller. The group has been voted Jazz Group of the Year for three consecutive years in DownBeat Magazine’s Annual Readers Poll. Rosnes was also a founding member of the SF JAZZ Collective and has been the artistic director of the Oscar Peterson International Jazz Festival. She married pianist Bill Charlap in 2007 and the two released a duet recording in 2010. Renee Rosnes was born in this date in 1962.

Here is a link to Rosnes playing with bassist Ron Carter:

"MY FUNNY VALENTINE"