Angela Kraft Cross Homage to Martin Luther King Jr. (2023)
Angela Kraft Cross from Petite Messe d'Orgue (2019) Sanctus
Maurice Duruflé (1902-1986) Scherzo, Op. 2
Angela Kraft Cross Healing Waters (2022)
Louis Vierne (1870-1937) from Symphony No. 3 in F# Minor, Op. 28 5. Final
Angela Kraft Cross, San Francisco Bay Area organist, pianist and composer, graduated from Oberlin College and Conservatory of Music in 1980 with bachelor’s degrees in Physics and Organ Performance. She then earned her Doctor of Medicine degree at Loma Linda University, where she completed her residency in ophthalmology. In 1993, she completed her Master of Music degree in Piano Performance at the College of Notre Dame. In 2001, she was awarded the AAGO credential. She has studied composition with Pamela Decker.
In July 2011, Dr. Kraft Cross was a featured recitalist at the San Francisco AGO Region IX Convention. She released nine solo CD albums, recorded in California as well as in Paris, Lyon, and London. Her latest album, Passages on the Journey, recorded in Methuen, Massachusetts, features her compositions of the past ten years. Since 2018, Lorenz Music/Sacred Music Press has published her compositions and has released eight books of her organ works: Tree of Life, Journey to Wholeness, Messianic Longings, House of Love, Courage in a Time of Struggle, Eternal Oasis, Organ Inventions and Hymn Inventions. For the National Prayer Service in the 2021 Presidential Inauguration, Thomas Sheehan performed her “Healing” movement from Journey to Wholeness for the postlude at Washington National Cathedral. She has served as the organist of the Congregational Church of San Mateo since 1993, and is Artist in Residence.
In addition to her musical career, Dr. Kraft Cross retired in 2011, having worked for 22 years as an ophthalmic surgeon at the Kaiser Permanente Hospital in Redwood City, and now volunteers at the Samaritan House San Mateo. She is committed to the musical education of young people. Dr. Kraft Cross is the founding director of the San Francisco Peninsula Organ Academy, a nonprofit organization formed in 2014 to support young concert organists with scholarships on short intensive overseas study trips. She is a member of the Concert Artist Cooperative III.