Renée Anne Louprette, Concert Organist and Conductor
ABOUT RENÉE
Hailed by The New York Times as “splendid,” and “one of New York’s finest organists,” Renée Anne Louprette maintains an international career as organ recitalist, conductor, collaborative artist, and teacher. She is associated with several distinguished music programs in New York City, having served as Associate Director of Music at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, Trinity Wall Street, the Unitarian Church of All Souls, and Director of Music at the Church of Notre Dame.
In June 2026, she begins her tenure as Director of Music Ministries and Organist of Third Presbyterian Church in Rochester, New York, where she will partner with the faculty of the Eastman School of Music in overseeing the design and installation of a new pipe organ by Rieger Orgelbau in Austria, to be dedicated by January 2029. In July 2026, she will complete her six-year term as 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. From 2019 to 2026, she was Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist at Bard College and Conservatory in upstate New York where she revitalized a comprehensive program of early music study and performance, conducting the Bard Baroque Ensemble and founding an annual Bach cantata series.
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
Sunday, April 26, 4 PM
Handel’s Messiah
Michael Shake, Conductor
First Presbyterian Church
New York, NY
Monday, May 11, 8 PM
Handel’s Alexander’s Feast
Oratorio Society of New York
Kent Tritle, Conductor
Carnegie Hall
New York, 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
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
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