photo credit: Jamison Wexler Photography

Renée Hemsing, a native of Los Alamos, New Mexico, specializes in chamber music and early music performance on both violin and viola. She earned her doctorate at the University of Colorado where her string quartet (Ajax Quartet) was graduate Quartet-in-Residence with the Takacs Quartet. She earned her masters at the University of North Texas with Emanuel Borok where she also studied baroque violin​ with ​Cynthia Roberts, and her bachelors from the University of New Mexico under​ ​renowned Brazilian soloist Cármelo de los Santos. In addition to her primary instructors, Renée’s mentors include Brandon Chui, Paul Kantor, Charles Wetherbee, and David Halen. Renée has been presented in master classes with the Takacs Quartet, Pacifica Quartet, Jupiter Quartet, Escher Quartet, American Quartet, Augustine Hadelich, Don Weilerstein, Sylvia Rosenberg, Vadim Gluzman, Matt Albert, Stephen Rose, and Peter Otto. In Spring 2014, Renée was featured on the cover of Symphony Magazine. Currently, Renée lives in Arlington, MA, where she maintains her private studio of string students. Her concert engagements this season include performances with the Handel + Haydn Society, Connecticut Early Music Festival, Charlotte Bach Akademie, and Seraphic Fire.