MGS presents Reneé Anne Louprette, organ
American organist Renée Anne Louprette has established an international career as recitalist, conductor, collaborative musician, and teacher. She is Assistant Professor of Music and College Organist at Bard College in upstate New York where she is artistic director and conductor of the Bard Baroque Ensemble. She has directed the organ program of Rutgers University in New Jersey since 2013 and previously served on the organ faculty at the Manhattan School of Music, the Hartt School of the University of Hartford, and Montclair State University. She is director of the National Competition in Organ Improvisation for the American Guild of Organists. Ms. Louprette has been granted a Fulbright U.S. Scholar Award for 2022-2023 when she will spend six months in Brasov, Romania, documenting the preservation and restoration of historic pipe organs in Transylvania.
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Renée Anne Louprette, organ
Friday, February 23, 2024 - 7:30 pm
Christ United Methodist Church
Live Audience Tickets
Program
- Praeludium in G Major Nicolaus Bruhns 1665-1697
- Aus tiefer Not schrei’ ich zu dir Georg Böhm 1661-1733
- Tiento de Medio Registro de Tiple de Quarto Tono Francisco Correa de Arauxo 1584-1654
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Livre d’orgue: Pange Lingua
Nicolas de Grigny
1672-1703
Pange lingua en taille à 4
Fugue à 5
Récit du Chant de l’Hyme precedent
- Prelude and Fugue in E minor (“Wedge”), BWV 548 Johann Sebastian Bach 1685-1750
INTERMISSION
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Douzes courtes Pièces, Op. 43, Volume 1
Rachel Laurin
1961-2023
3. Intermezzo
5. Moto perpetuo
12. Fugue “Triangulaire”
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Twelve Choral Preludes on Gregorian Chant Themes. Op. 8
Jeanne Demessieux
1921-1968
III. Attende Domine – Choral paraphrase
- Introduction, Passacaglia, and Fugue on Windham David Hurd b. 1950
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Pièces de Fantaisie, Deuxième Suite, Op. 53
Louis Vierne
1870-1937
Clair de lune
Toccata
Program subject to change at the discretion of the artist(s).
This concert is made possible by the generous support of Carolyn Cotton.