Jan Kraybill, Organ – Feats for the Feet

Name: Jan Kraybill, Organ – Feats for the Feet
Start: 2026-02-27T19:30:00-08:00
Location: 804 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98104

Schedule

Fri, 27 Feb, 2026 at 07:30 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

804 9th Avenue, Seattle, WA, United States, Washington 98104 | Seattle, WA

During the celebration of the 25th anniversary of the dedication of the Rosales organ at St. James Cathedral, Seattle, we feature the organ throughout the 2025-2026 concert season.
"Feats for the Feet" opens with a piece for feet, "Pedal exertitium" (BWV 598) originally attributed to J. S. Bach but now believed to have been composed by his son, Carl Philipp Emmanuel Bach. Next is Johann Sebastian Bach's Prelude and Fugue in D Major, BWV 532, which opens with a big D major scale played by the feet. The rest of the program keeps the feet dancing in various ways – by playing melodies, manipulating controls for dynamics, and other techniques. The concert closes with a real "feat," Leo Sowerby's "Pageant," which features the feet in amazing and virtuosic ways. Other composers on the program include Gustav Holst, Edward Elgar, and Charles Stanford. There are also pieces by contemporary composers, including Libby Larsen, Rachel Laurin, and Kansas City composer Geoffrey Wilcken.
GRAMMY-nominated artist Jan Kraybill is a concert organist, pianist, and harpsichordist; a dynamic speaker, educator, church musician, and consultant; and an enthusiastic cheerleader 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 in Overland Park, Kansas. In these roles she plays and oversees the care of three of the Kansas City metro area's largest pipe organs: the 113-rank Aeolian-Skinner (1959) and 102-rank Casavant (1993) at Community of Christ's Auditorium and Temple, and the Kauffman Center's 102-rank Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant (2012).
To read her complete biography, visit https://jankraybill.com/bio. More info about the concert at https://www.stjames-cathedral.org/music/concerts/2026-02-27-Jan-Kraybill.aspx.