LUNCHTIME RECITAL
Angela Kraft Cross – organ
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Retiring Collection
The Programme
Angela Kraft Cross – organ
Johann Sebastian BachPrelude and Fugue in G, BWV 541
Angela Kraft CrossSymphonie (2025-26)
I. Maestoso: Appassionata
II. Menuet ‘Homage to Maurice Ravel’
III. Scherzo
IV. Adagio
V. Finale ‘Chrysalis’
(UK premiere)
The Artist
Angela Kraft Cross, AAGO (Associate of the American Guild of Organists), is an international concert organist, teacher and composer based in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her organ training included a Bachelor’s degree in Organ Performance at Oberlin College with William Porter and Garth Peacock, as well as extensive study in France with Louis Robilliard, Marie-Louise Langlais and Sophie-Veronique Cauchefer-Choplin. She studied organ with Sandra Soderlund and composition with Pamela Decker.
In addition to performing over 700 concerts, she has recorded nine solo CD albums and published nine volumes of organ compositions with Lorenz. She loves teaching college-preparatory organ, and her students have continued organ study at Oberlin, USC, UC Berkeley and Yale. Angela is the founding director of the San Francisco Peninsula Organ Academy, a non-profit organization since 2014 supporting young concert organists with scholarships on short, intensive overseas study trips.
She is a retired eye surgeon and currently volunteers at Samaritan House Free Clinic. She served the Congregational Church of San Mateo as Organist/Artist-in-Residence from 1993-2025. She is co-Music Director of the Junior Bach Festival.
