RENÉE ANNE LOUPRETTE, ORGANIST

Hailed by The New York Times as “splendid,” and “one of New York’s finest organists,” Renée Anne Louprette has established an international career as organ recitalist, accompanist, conductor, and teacher. She is College Organist and Director of the Baroque Ensemble at Bard College in New York, and University Organist and Organ Program Coordinator at Mason Gross School of the Arts, Rutgers University in New Jersey. She has also served on the organ faculties of the Manhattan School of Music, The Hartt School of the University of Hartford, and the John J. Cali School of Music at Montclair State University.

Louprette has performed with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra, Voices of Ascension, American Symphony Orchestra, New York Choral Society, and Piffaro, among other New York ensembles. In the 2018-19 season, Louprette made her solo organ debuts at Royal Festival Hall in London, Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles, the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris, and with the American Brass Quintet. She has concertized throughout North America, Europe, and Australia. She will return to Europe in the summer of 2021 for a series of recitals in Romania, Germany, and Scandinavia and will be a featured soloist in the 2021 Bard Music Festival, “Nadia Boulanger and her world.”

Louprette’s recording of J.S. Bach’s “Great Eighteen Chorales” on the Acis label was named a classical music Critics’ Choice 2014 by The New York Times. She released a recording of 20th-century French organ repertoire – “Une voix française – A French Voice” – in 2018 to critical acclaim, and a collaborative recording of original compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish repertoire with uilleann piper Ivan Goff in 2019, both recorded at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. Her latest recording of Bach’s Clavier-Übung III, recorded on the Craighead-Saunders organ of Christ Church, Rochester, New York, is due for release in 2021.

Renée Anne Louprette holds a Master’s degree in conducting from Bard College Conservatory, a Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude in piano performance and Graduate Professional Diploma in organ performance from The Hartt School, University of Hartford. She was awarded a Premier Prix – mention très bien from the Conservatoire National de Région de Toulouse, France and a Diplôme Supérieur in organ performance from the Centre d’Études Supérieures de Musique et de Danse de Toulouse, studying with Michel Bouvard and Jan Willem Jansen and improvisation with Philippe Lefebvre.

Renée Anne Louprette is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists, LLC.