Louise Brugger Bidwell teaches piano at UC Berkeley in the Music 168C Program. She is trained as a pianist and composer and enjoys playing a variety of the wonderful keyboard instruments in the UCB Music Department. She has studied composition at UC Berkeley and gave piano concerts at Stanford for ten years while studying with Adolph Baller. She has performed many concerts at UC Berkeley on the departments historic Erard and Wieck pianos. Her interest in the harpsichord and early keyboard instruments has developed in recent years. Besides attending Professor Davitt Moroney’s course on French Music and Poetry, she also attended his Masterclass in the Music of William Byrd at the Flint Collection in Delaware. She gave concerts of William Byrd’s Music in a Noon Concert and at the Women’s Faculty Club. In 2020, she gave an on-line concert at the Women’s Faculty Club to celebrate JS Bach’s Birthday. She has given concerts at the Women’s Faculty Club and at St. Alban’s Church in Albany featuring Élisabeth Jacquet de La Guerre, Johann Jakob Froberger, François Couperin and others, including John Thow and Jeremy Hunt.

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Friday Concert: Keyboard Music from England, France, Germany and Spain

University of California, Berkeley

Hailed by The New York Times as “one of New York's finest organists,” Renée Anne Louprette maintains an international career a recitalist, pedagog, and collaborative artist. Based in New York, she has performed at Carnegie Hall, Avery Fisher, and Alice Tully Hall. Now, she brings her “grace, and charm, as well as her seemingly effortless virtuosity” (Choir & Organ) to Bond Chapel’s Reneker organ with works by J.S. Bach, Georg Böhm, Johann Adam Reincken, and more.

Georg Böhm

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Oct 24, 2025

Friday Concert: Keyboard Music from England, France, Germany and Spain · UC Berkeley Department of Music

Oct 20, 2024

Renée Anne Louprette, organ · UChicago Presents

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