Her father was Baron von Schoen, a Court Councilor to the Emperor and Royal Master of Forestry and Agriculture in the Rhineland.
[2] On her acceptance as a student, Schoen-René later said, "My real life as a musician and singer began only after I started my studies with her.
"[1][2] Schoen-René made her debut as Cherubino in The Marriage of Figaro, Zerlina in Don Giovanni and Marcelline in Fidelio at the Princely Opera of Saxony-Altenburg.
Later, she expanded the clubs into an organized university Choral Union that took part in opera and oratorio performances.
So I began to make arrangements to bring the best living artists to Minneapolis to give concerts, oratorios, and operas, which would be augmented musically by our Choral Union.
[4] These included many notable vocalists: Lucie Manén, Florencio Constantino, Risë Stevens, Mack Harrell, Judith Doniger, Lanny Ross, Marshall Bartholomew, George Meader, Sonia Essin, Paul Robeson, Thelma Votipka, Lillian Blauvelt, Florence Easton, Karin Branzell, Florence Austral, Charles Kullman, Marie Tiffany, Maria von Maximovitch, Julius Huehn, Eva Gauthier, George Britton, Kitty Carlisle, and Margaret Harshaw.