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
Saturday, December 9, 7 PM
Saint-Saëns – “Organ” Symphony No. 3
Smyth – Mass in D
Bard Conservatory Orchestra
Leon Botstein, Conductor
Renée Anne Louprette, Organist
Fisher Center for the Performing Arts
Bard College
Annandale-on-Hudson, NY
Monday, December 18, 7 PM
Oratorio Society of New York
Kent Tritle, Conductor
G.F. Handel: Messiah
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
Wednesday, December 20, 7:30 PM
Musica Sacra
Kent Tritle, Conductor
G.F. Handel: Messiah
Carnegie Hall
New York, NY
Saturday, February 3, 3 PM
Central Hudson Valley Chapter AGO
Romanian Organ Landscape: Preserving a National Treasure
Renée Anne Louprette, Presenter
St. James Episcopal Church
Hyde Park, NY
Saturday, February 10, 2 PM
Berkshire Bach Society
Organ Recital
Unitarian Universalist Meeting House
Housatonic, MA
LATEST NEWS
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.
Renée was interviewed on The New Classical FM radio program in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in anticipation of her recital at Our Lady of Sorrows Catholic Church on July 22. This concert was the last full-length recital of the international ORGANIX series in Toronto, passionately curated by Gordon Mansell throughout its admirable 18-year existence. Renée had last appeared on the series in 2012. | listen
Renée returned to Romania for two weeks in June to present recitals on the Organ Nights series at Biserica Neagră in Brașov (watch here) and on the International Organ Series Cantus Ecclesiae at Catedrala Sfântul Iosif in Bucharest. She also surveyed the C.O.T. organ building firm’s ongoing restoration of the 1775 Johannes Hahn organ in Cristian-Sibiu and met with the directorship of the U.S.-Romanian Fulbright Commission in Bucharest as part of her visit.
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