Cellist Renata Bratt teaches cello and string orchestra at the Santa Cruz Waldorf School in California, is a conductor for Boulder Creek’s adult chamber strings’ Concertino and regularly performs in classical, jazz, rock and Celtic groups. She has taught classical styles, jazz improvisation and fiddling at international string workshops including Alasdair Fraser’s camps, Southern Hemisphere International School for Scottish Fiddling in New Zealand, the New Directions Cello Festival, Wintergrass, the Mandolin Symposium, ASTA, MENC and Suzuki institutes. Her string orchestra compositions, arrangements and fiddling cello books are published by Alfred, Keiser Southern, Ludwig Masters, Mel Bay and Randall Standridge Music. Renata received her Ph.D. in Music from UC San Diego.

She has been Kuumbwa Jazz Artist in the Schools as well as past president of the Suzuki Music Association of California and the International Association for Jazz Education String Caucus

She has toured internationally with Reel of Seven (a Scottish Country Dance Band) performed with luminaries such as Liz Carroll and John Doyle, Darol Anger and Alasdair Fraser, and played back-up with Jimmy Page and Robert Plant, David Sanborn, Lyle Lovett and Dionne Warwick. Rolling Stone dubbed her an "ace performer" for her work recording and touring with alternative rocker Cindy Lee Berryhill's Garage Orchestra.