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UPCOMING EVENTS
Saturday, January 25, 2025 |
Hailed by The New York Times as “splendid,” and “one of New York’s finest organists”, Renée Anne Louprette performs widely as organ recitalist, accompanist, and teacher. Based near New York City, she has performed with many of the city’s premiere ensembles, including the Mostly Mozart Orchestra and the New York Choral Society, and she has appeared in Carnegie, Avery Fisher, Alice Tully, and Merkin Halls. Her recording of J.S. Bach’s “Great Eighteen Chorales” (on the Acis label) was named Critics’ Choice 2014 by The New York Times. In February 2018, Acis released her new CD, Une Voix Française: A French Voice. Ms. Louprette is College Organist and Assistant Professor of Music at Bard College in New York.
From the Critics
“Renée Anne Louprette must be counted among the greatest performers of our time.”
(Orgelnieuws, The Netherlands, 2020)
“(Louprette’s) touch was secure, her choice of tone colors imaginative, lending each piece a distinctive flavor… A crazed cadenza that came out of nowhere showed Louprette in a virtuosic light.”
(The Berkshire Eagle, Great Barrington, MA, 2020)
“Louprette’s was a solid, confident performance. Bravo!”
(Bynum Petty, The Tracker, October 2019)
“…The week’s new music proved meaningful and memorable. In her organ recital, Renée Anne Louprette was joined by Irish piper Ivan Goff for the premiere of Eve Beglarian’s “Were You at the Rock,” which added a parade of fluted, flighty, scintillating embellishments to a traditional Irish song. It was sometimes hard to tell whose pipes were doing what, making nothing what it seemed and everything new.”
(Mark Swed, Los Angeles Times, 2018)
About Her Recordings
⋆⋆⋆⋆⋆ “Having previously served as associate director of music, Renée Anne Louprette is no stranger to St. Ignatius Loyola in New York and its French inspired instrument from British firm Mander. She returns with an exciting recording of French repertoire. The second suite of Vierne’s Pièces de fantaisie sits alongside some less familiar pieces by Ibert, André Isoir and Nadia Boulanger. Isoir’s only organ composition, Variations sur un psaume huguenot, is a particularly vibrant exploration of neo-baroque sounds. Louprette plays with grace and charm as well as seemingly effortless virtuosity. Twenty-five years since its installation, this organ still captivates with its uniquely French voice in New York.
(Rupert Gough, Choir & Organ, January 2019, on Une voix française | A French voice)
Bright Vision is a demo disc for a more unusual pairing of organ with Irish pipes. Rather than the organ taming this traditional Irish music into a classical idiom, Renée Anne Louprette cleverly uses the organ to create more of a backing track of complementary sounds and harmonies, augmenting the natural drones of the Irish bagpipes and sometimes providing seamlessly blended counter-melodies. Mirage is the most compelling work, mixing eastern European rhythms and melodies. There are two versions of the title track Aisling Gheal (‘Bright Vision’), the second, by Louprette, recalling the timbres of Olivier Messiaen. This combination of instruments will not be to everyone’s taste, but the work of the Louprette-Goff duo here is clever and engaging.
(Rupert Gough, Choir & Organ, July 2019, on Bright Vision)
“This is a splendid disc. Ms. Louprette has studied in Toulouse, and the French repertoire is clearly very much in her bones. She also had a six-year spell at St. Ignatius Loyola [New York City], so knows this 1993 Mander organ intimately. Under her hands the organ makes exactly the right sound for her programme. Louprette is equal to all the colouristic and technical demands of this music. The recorded sound is terrific, Mander’s magnum opus is in great voice, and all aspects of the playing satisfies thoroughly.”
(Roger Judd, Organists’ Review, UK, September 2018)
“Louprette’s performances here are excellent – technically assured, highly articulate, and musical, demonstrating much of the instrument’s tonal palette and a great sensitivity to the chosen music….It is quite easy to see from this disc why she is regarded as one of New York City’s most compelling performers. Perhaps this will become the first disc in a series of complete Bach recordings; if so it would certainly rival the best current recording out there…”
(James M. Reed, The Diapason, June 2017, on BACH: ‘THE GREAT 18 CHORALES’)
Une Voix Française: A French Voice, Acis #APL01609
Bach: The Great Eighteen Chorales, Acis #APL58180