Renée Anne Louprette, Concert Organist and Conductor
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, April 11, 3 PM
Bach’s St. John Passion
Berkshire Bach Society
James Bagwell, Conductor
First Congregational Church
Great Barrington, MA
Sunday, April 12, 3 PM
Bach’s St. John Passion
Berkshire Bach Society
James Bagwell, Conductor
Troy Savings Bank Music Hall
Troy, NY
Friday, May 15, 7:30 PM
Organ Recital
St. Mark’s Cathedral, Episcopal
Seattle, WA
Saturday, May 16, 10 AM
Organ Masterclass
University of Washington and Seattle AGO Chapter
St. Mark’s Cathedral, Episcopal
Seattle, WA
Wednesday, May 27, 7:30 PM
Organ Recital
Methuen Memorial Music Hall
Methuen, MA
LATEST NEWS
Renée Anne Louprette has been appointed Director of Music Ministries and Organist of Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, effective June 15. In this role, she will direct the 50-voice adult choir, mentor the Assistant Organist (a position most often filled by graduate students at the Eastman School), spearhead the Third Arts series, and oversee chorister, piano lab, and handbell programs led by other music program staff. She will partner with the Eastman School of Music’s Organ, Sacred Music, and Historical Keyboards program in overseeing the installation of a newly commissioned pipe organ for Third Church by Rieger Orgelbau to be completed in late 2028 or early 2029. The specification of this French symphonic instrument was conceived by project consultant Nathan Laube. Renée follows previous Third Church music directors David Schelat (interim), James Kealey, and Peter DuBois, Director Emeritus, who led the program from 1991 to 2023 and who continues as host of WXXI Classical’s radio program “With Heart and Voice.”
Minnesota Public Radio and American Public Media’s Pipedreams released a program in January 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). | listen here
Renée’s recording on the Acis label: Bach’s “Clavier-Übung III, The Pedal Settings” was released at a concert event sponsored by the Eastman School of Music at Christ Church, Rochester in September 2023. The release event coincided with the 15th anniversary of the Craighead-Saunders organ modeled after the 1776 Casparini organ in Vilnius, Lithuania and featured in the recording.
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