Jan Kraybill - Opening Concert for the 2020 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival - St. Mark's, Shreveport

Jan Kraybill plays the 1959 Aeolian-Skinner, Opus 1308 at St. Mark's Cathedral in Shreveport, Louisiana for the 2020 East Texas Pipe Organ Festival, which was given in memory of William Teague, organist-choirmaster at St. Mark's for over 38 years. Jan's program includes music by Ayres, Dupré, Karg-Elert, Rogers, Sowerby, and Wilcken.

Video is by David Brown
Audio by Lorenz Maycher

Special thanks to Michael Barone of American Public Media's PIPEDREAMS, master of ceremonies - pipedreams.org

This concert was underwritten by Mr. Chester H. Berry of Sandy, Utah.

The East Texas Pipe Organ Festival is an annual event dedicated to the life and work of Roy Perry (1906-1978) who was the area representative for Aeolian-Skinner for many years.

For more information, visit www.easttexaspipeorganfestival.com

GRAMMY-nominated artist JAN KRAYBILL is a musical leader and dynamic speaker; a concert organist, pianist, and harpsichordist; an educator, church musician, and consultant; and an enthusiastic advocate for the power of music to change lives for the better.

In addition to maintaining a very active concert schedule, Dr. Kraybill is Organ Conservator at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts in Kansas City, Missouri, USA, Organist-in-Residence at the international headquarters of Community of Christ in Independence, Missouri; and Organist at Village on Antioch Presbyterian Church (PCUSA) in Overland Park, Kansas. She plays and oversees the care of the Kansas City metro area's three largest pipe organs: at Community of Christ, the Auditorium’s 113-rank Aeolian-Skinner (installed in 1959) and the Temple’s 102-rank Casavant (1993), and at the Kauffman Center's Helzberg Hall, the 102-rank Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant (2012).

Throughout her career Jan has performed as both a solo and collaborative musician, designed and led international hymn festivals, taught workshops on a variety of topics, and inspired audiences and congregations. While in high school in Colby, Kansas, Jan was invited to play her first European piano recital in Andover, England. Since then, she has performed in many venues in North America and in Australia, Europe, Russia, South Korea, and Tahiti. She has undertaken multiple tours of the United Kingdom, including organ concerts at the grand cathedrals of Chester, Exeter, and St. Paul’s in London. In 2015, she designed and led a hymn festival at the International Gathering of Hymn Societies at Cambridge University.

Jan has been a featured artist and teacher at regional and national conventions of the American Guild of Organists (AGO), the American Choral Directors Association, the Hymn Society in the United States and Canada, and other musicians’ organizations, and has been heard on many broadcasts of American Public Media’s national program Pipedreams. She has collaborated with many ensembles, including the Bach Aria Soloists, the Phoenix Chorale, Kantorei Denver, the GRAMMY-winning Kansas City Chorale, the GRAMMY-nominated Kansas City Symphony and Symphony Chorus, and others.

Several solo CDs and collaborative recordings are available. Jan's first solo CD, Two by 2: Two Organ Symphonies on Two Magnificent Organs, features both of Community of Christ’s pipe organs. Rejoice and Remember contains hymn arrangements for piano. The Auditorium Organ: Fifty Years of Excellence celebrated that organ’s 50th anniversary in 2009. Solo CDs of the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant were released by Reference Recordings in 2014 and 2019: Organ Polychrome features music by French composers, and The Orchestral Organ is a disc of transcriptions. Jan has recorded for Reference with the Kansas City Symphony on several occasions. Their disc containing Saint-Saëns' “Organ” Symphony was nominated for a GRAMMY in 2015, and her most recent solo disc, The Orchestral Organ, was nominated as Best Classical Instrumental Solo album in 2020.

Dr. Kraybill's degrees in music education and piano and organ performance were earned at Kansas State University and the Conservatory of Music and Dance at the University of Missouri-Kansas City. In 2010 she achieved the distinction of Fellow of the AGO, organists' highest certification level. She has served in many local, regional, and national roles in the AGO, The Hymn Society, and the Master Teacher Institute, most recently as Executive Director of The Hymn Society in the U.S. and Canada. She is a member of Mensa. Her extra-musical interests include antiquing, lace making, and riding her Harley-Davidson with her husband, Allan.

Explore www.jankraybill.com for more information and Jan’s concert schedule.

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