Concerts at Saint Thomas presents American organist Renée Anne Louprette

New York- American concert organist Renée Anne Louprette kicks off the 2023-2024 Grand Organ Series at Saint Thomas Church (One West 53rd Street, New York) with an afternoon of J.S. Bach, Demessieux, Rachel Laurin, Rolande Falcinelli and more. This performance will feature the use of the gallery's Loening-Hancock Organ, as well as the premiere concert performance on the Miller-Scott Organ's newly completed nave console, the Karl and Barbara Saunders Organ Console.? 

Tickets are $18 for student/senior, $20 for general admission and can be purchased here and $10 for the livestream, purchase here. 

 

Program 

Praeludium in G Major 

Nicolaus Bruhns (1665-1697) 

Douzes courtes Pièces, Op. 43, Vol. 1 

3. Intermezzo
4. Moto perpetuo
5. Fugue "Triangulaire"

Rachel Laurin (b. 1961-2023) 

Prelude and Fugue in E minor ("Wedge"), BWV 548 

J.S. Bach (1685-1750) 

Te Deum, Op. 11 

Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) 

Twelve Choral Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes, Op. 8 

iii. Attende Domine - Choral paraphrase 

Jeanne Demessieux (1921-1968) 

Litanies 

Jehan Alain (1911-1940) 

Petit Livre de Prières, Op. 24 

vii. Au coeur sacré de Jésus 

viii. A Sainte Thérèse de l’Enfant-Jésus 

Rolande Falcinelli (1920-2006) 

Choral No. 3 in A minor 

César Franck (1822-1890) 

 

About Renée Anne Louprette 

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 Bra?ov, 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. More on Louprette here.  

 

About the Miller-Scott Organ 

The Miller-Scott Organ is one of North America’s most significant new pipe organs. In addition to supporting the parish’s internationally-renowned liturgical and musical life, the Miller-Scott Organ serves as a showcase for recitalists from all over the world and helps Saint Thomas train the next generation of organists. More on the Miller-Scott Organ here. 

  

About Loening-Hancock Organ 

In the spring of 1996, the gallery instrument was dedicated as the Loening-Hancock Organ. The firm of Taylor & Boody of Staunton, Virginia built the instrument which contains twenty-one stops over two manuals and a pedal. The instrument is inspired by the tradition of organ building which was active in the Netherlands and North Germany in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries. A third manual (Brustwerk) and several prepared-for stops were added in 2016. Stop and key action are mechanical and the temperament is Kellner. 

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