Founded in 1938, The Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists has 150 members, including organists, choir directors, organ builders, technicians, clergy, students, and others. Each year the KC AGO holds performances with local and international artists and works to connect the pipe organ world to the local community.
Joshua Hearn, dean of the Kansas City chapter, sees the organ as a "great partner" and values how the GKCAGO puts organists together with other local musicians. "As organists, we live a pretty solitude existence. It's just us. And so, being able to play and perform with other musicians is a real treat."
Jan Kraybill, the Grammy Award nominated regular with the Kansas City Symphony and Conservator of the Julia Irene Kauffman Casavant Organ at the Kauffman Center for the Performing Arts has been a member of the GKCAGO since moving to Kansas City in 1986. "They have nurtured me throughout my career and I've gotten to nurture younger organists through this same guild. I feel very connected to these people, they are precious to me."
Host
Brooke Knoll
Guests
Jan Kraybill
Joshua Hearn
Program
Prelude et fugue sur le nom d'Alain, Op. 7
Prelude
Fugue
by Maurice Duruflé
Scott Dettra, organ
Messe solennelle
II. Gloria
by Jean Langlais
James O'Donnell and the Westminster Abbey Choir
Robert Quinney, organ
The Trumpet Sounds Within-A My Soul
by Ian Coleman
Anthony Maglione and the William Jewell College Concert Choir and GKCAGO Schola Cantorum
Ann Marie Rigler, organ
Randolph Lee, trumpet
3 Pieces, M. 37
Pièce héroïque
by César Franck
Jan Kraybill, organ
Organ Concerto in D Minor, BWV 596
I. Allegro
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Kimberly Marshall, organ
Fantasia in G major, BWV572
by Johann Sebastian Bach
Scott Dettra, organ

Membership and performance information for the Greater Kansas City Chapter of the American Guild of Organists can be found at kcago.com. More information about Jan Kraybill at jankraybill.com.