Renée Brad teaches voice and a variety of courses in the BFA Musical Theatre Performance Program at MacEwan University and has been a guest instructor in the Voice Department at the University of Alberta as well as at Opera Nuova’s Summer Intensive Program. An acclaimed mezzo-soprano, Renée has performed in opera, oratorio, musical theatre, chamber music, and solo recitals throughout Canada and in New York.

She appeared with Edmonton Opera, delighting audiences as Cousin Hebe in their Sterling Award winning production of HMS Pinafore. Also for Edmonton Opera, she sang Kate in Pirates of Penzance, Annina in La Traviata, Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia and the Dama/Hexe in Macbeth.  She appeared as The Mother in Menotti’s Amahl and the Night Visitors and The Witch in Hansel and Gretel with Opera Nuova. Roles for Opera Saskatchewan include Tisbe in La Cenerentola, Kate Pinkerton in Madama Butterfly, and Berta in Il Barbiere di Siviglia. She sang Mercedes in Carmen with Saskatoon Opera, Popova in Walton’s The Bear, and Kate in Elizabeth Raum’s The Dream of Nicholas Flood Davin with the Regina Centenary Project.

Favorite theatre roles include Rose in The Secret Garden, Meg Page in The Merry Wives of Windsor, Katisha in The Mikado, Amy in Company, and Ella in Bells are Ringing. A frequent soloist with orchestras, Renée has performed Karl Jenkin's Stabat Mater, Haydn’s Lord Nelson Mass and Paukenmesse, Schubert’s Mass in E-flat, Bruckner’s Te Deum, Mozart’s Coronation Mass and Requiem, Bach’s Weihnachts Oratorium and Johannes Passion, Vivaldi’s Magnificat and Gloria, Handel’s Messiah, and Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony. Renée's recording of Elizabeth Raum's How Bodies Leave Ecstatic Marks with the Contrasts Trio for the CMC Centrediscs label won a 2008 Western Canadian Music Award.

Renée created and premiered the cabaret Motherhood: The Second Oldest Profession for the Golden Apple Theatre Company and collaborated in the creation of the Songs in the Key of Life for Opera Nuova and Mezzo Madness at the University of Alberta. She is currently completing her research and dissertation for her MA in Voice Pedagogy at the University of Essex, Voice Study Centre. In addition to teaching at MacEwan University, Renée maintains an active private studio and is in demand as an adjudicator and clinician throughout Canada.