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SUMMARY:Erben Organ Days 2019: Renée Anne Louprette in Concert
DESCRIPTION:Renée Anne Louprette\, internationally acclaimed concert organist\, will present an organ recital as part of the annual San Gennaro Festival in Little Italy. Suggested donation $15 to help raise funds for the 1868 Henry Erben Organ restoration. Erben Organ Days 2019 is a series of concerts and events highlighting our historic 1868 Henry Erben Organ. \nReserve seats now\nTickets will also be available at the door. For group sales\, contact us at music@erbenorgan.org \nMs. Louprette will be playing both the 1868 Henry Erben and the 1859 Hall & Labagh organs in the Basilica\, in a program that includes works by Italian composers for San Gennaro Festival. Click for full details and tickets. \n1868 Henry Erben and 1859 Hall & Labagh organs at the Basilica\nHailed 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\, conductor\, and teacher. She is associated with a number of 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. \nUpon receipt of a Master of Music degree in conducting from Bard College in 2019\, Ms. Louprette was appointed Assistant Professor of Music there. She continues as coordinator of the organ studio at Mason Gross School of the Arts\, Rutgers University\, where she has been University Organist since 2013. She is a former member of the organ faculty at 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. \nAs conductor\, Ms. Louprette was selected as a fellow of the Mostly Modern Festival in 2019\, premiering several new works with the New York-based American Modern Ensemble. She was co-conductor with Kent Tritle in the acclaimed U.S. premiere of John Tavener’s Requiem in 2009. In her over 20-year career as choral conductor\, she has led performances by various professional choirs in the New York City area with members of The Orchestra Now\, Orchestra of St. Luke’s\, and the American Brass Quintet\, among other ensembles. \nAn active freelance keyboardist\, Ms. Louprette has performed with the Mostly Mozart Festival Orchestra\, Voices of Ascension\, Clarion Music Society\, American Symphony Orchestra\, The Orchestra Now\, The Dessoff Choirs\, New York Choral Society\, Oratorio Society of New York\, and Piffaro. In New York City she has appeared in Carnegie\, Zankel\, Avery Fisher\, Alice Tully\, and Merkin Halls\, and Miller Theatre of Columbia University. In 2015 she collaborated with the Los Angeles Dance Project in a performance of Nico Muhly’s Moving Parts at Verizon Hall of the Kimmel Center in Philadelphia. The 2018-2019 season will feature Ms. Louprette’s debut with the American Brass Quintet\, and continuing collaborations with Musica Viva NY under conductor Alejandro Hernandez-Valdez\, classical saxophonist Paul Cohen\, and traditional Irish musician Ivan Goff\, including a recital at Walt Disney Concert Hall in Los Angeles featuring the world premiere of a new work for uilleann pipes and organ by Eve Beglarian\, commissioned by the Los Angeles Philharmonic. \nRenée Anne Louprette has performed throughout the United Kingdom and Ireland\, including at Westminster Abbey and the Temple Church in London\, St. Giles Cathedral Edinburgh and Dunblane Cathedral (Scotland)\, Galway Cathedral and Dún Laoghaire (Ireland). In Fall 2018\, she made her solo debuts at the Royal Festival Hall in London and the Cathedral of Notre Dame in Paris. \nAdditional European festival appearances include Magadino\, Switzerland; In Tempore Organi\, Italy; Ghent and Hasselt\, Belgium; Copenhagen and Aarhus\, Denmark; Bordeaux Cathedral and Toulouse Les Orgues\, France. She appeared as organ soloist with the Queensland Symphony Orchestra in Brisbane\, Australia\, in a performance of Saint-Saëns’ Organ Symphony broadcast live on ABC radio. She regularly performs at regional conventions of the American Guild of Organists and has been featured at two national conventions: the 2010 Convention in Washington\, D.C.\, and the 2014 Convention in Boston where she presented the world premiere of Pamela Decker’s Faneuil Hall. \nHer recording of the “Great Eighteen Chorales” of J. S. Bach on the Metzler Organ in the chapel of Trinity College\, Cambridge\, England\, was named a classical music Critics’ Choice 2014 by The New York Times. In February 2018\, she released a recording of 20th-century French organ repertoire – “Une voix française – A French Voice” – on the Acis Productions label to critical acclaim. Her upcoming recordings include Bach’s Clavier-Übung III on the Acis label\, recorded on the Craighead-Saunders organ of Christ Church\, Rochester\, New York\, and a collaborative recording of original compositions and arrangements of traditional Irish repertoire with Ivan Goff\, recorded at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola in New York City. \nRenée Anne Louprette holds a Master’s degree in conducting from Bard College Conservatory where she studied conducting with James Bagwell and composition with Joan Tower\, and a Bachelor of Music degree summa cum laude in piano performance and a 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. She completed additional studies in organ with Dame Gillian Weir\, James David Christie\, and Guy Bovet. \nRenée Anne Louprette is represented in North America exclusively by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists\, LLC. \nReserve seats now\nTickets will also be available at the door. For group sales\, contact us at music@erbenorgan.org
URL:https://erbenorgan.org/event/erben-organ-days-2019-renee-anne-louprette-in-concert/
LOCATION:Basilica of Saint Patrick’s Old Cathedral\, 261 Mott Street\, New York\, NY\, 10012\, United States
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