Renée Anne Louprette is appointed director of music ministries and organist for Third Presbyterian Church, Rochester, New York, effective June 15. She will direct the fifty-member volunteer adult choir with professional section leaders, mentor the assistant organist (a position often filled by graduate students at the Eastman School of Music), direct 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.
Louprette is director of the American Guild of Organists National Competition in Organ Improvisation and a 2022 United States-Romanian Fulbright scholar. She recently served on the full-time faculty at Bard College and Conservatory where she revitalized a comprehensive early music program as director of the Bard Baroque Ensemble and founder of an annual Bach cantata series. In New York City she has served at the Church of St. Ignatius Loyola, All Souls Unitarian Church, Church of Notre Dame, and Trinity Church Wall Street. She has also directed the organ programs of Rutgers and Montclair State universities in New Jersey. Louprette is represented by Phillip Truckenbrod Concert Artists.
For information: concertartists.com
and
thirdpresbyterian.org.
Other recent appointments:
Jackson Merrill to St. Thomas, New York City
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