Renée Anne Louprette, Concert Organist
ABOUT RENÉE
American organist Renée Anne Louprette maintains an international career as recitalist, conductor, collaborative musician, and teacher. She is associated with several distinguished music programs in the New York City area, having served as Associate Director of Music at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Associate Director of Music and the Arts at Trinity Wall Street, Organist and Associate Director at the Unitarian Church of All Souls, and Director of Music at the Church of Notre Dame. She is director of the American Guild of Organists’ National Competition in Organ Improvisation.
Louprette is a U.S.-Romanian Fulbright Scholar who spent the Fall 2022 season in Brașov, Transylvania, surveying the preservation of historic Romanian pipe organs. She is Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist at Bard College in New York where she directs the Bard Baroque Ensemble and leads an annual Bach cantata series. She has directed the organ program at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey since 2013 and is a former faculty member at the Manhattan School of Music, The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, and the John J. Cali School of Music of Montclair State University.
UPCOMING EVENTS
Sunday, October 20, 3 PM
Organ Recital
University of Chicago
Bond Chapel
Chicago, IL
Sunday, November 3, 3 PM
Organ Recital
Grace Episcopal Church
Holland, MI
Saturday, January 25
Philadelphia Chapter AGO: January Jumpstart
Organ Masterclass: 11:15 AM
Organ Recital: 4 PM
Bryn Mawr Presbyterian Church
Bryn Mawr, PA
Sunday, March 9, 5 PM
Organ Recital
Cathedral of Saint John the Divine
New York, NY
LATEST NEWS
Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media’s Pipedreams released a program on January 15, 2024 about Renée and her career as concert organist. The two-part broadcast features live performances from St. Thomas University in St. Paul, MN (recorded by Barone in 2021) and excerpts from Renée’s recent recordings (Bach’s Great Eighteen Chorales; Une voix française; Bright Vision). The program can be accessed here: Bright Vision #2403.
Renée’s latest recording on the Acis label: Bach’s “Clavier-Übung III, The Pedal Settings” will be released at a concert event sponsored by the Eastman School of Music at Christ Church, Rochester on September 24 at 4 PM. The release event will coincide with the 15th anniversary of the Craighead-Saunders organ modeled after the 1776 Casparini organ in Vilnius, Lithuania and featured in the recording.
Renée was nominated by her peers to become a member of the Recording Academy – an American learned academy of musicians, producers, recording engineers and other musical professionals famous for its Grammy Awards recognizing worldwide achievement in music. Renée was confirmed a member of the Recording Academy’s Class of 2023 in July.
RECORDINGS
Renée Anne Louprette –
Bach: Clavier-Übung III | The Pedal Settings
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Renée Anne Louprette & Ivan Goff –
Bright Vision
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Renée Anne Louprette –
Une voix française | A French voice
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“…the performance won a deserved ovation”
~The New York Times
“…a communicative player with no shortage of imaginative ideas, with fingers fully capable of backing them up”
~The Irish Times
“…on a la certitude d’un talent prometteur, et à suivre”
~The Diapason