The 41st season of the Second Sunday Evensong/Organ Recital Series at St. Mark’s, Berkeley continues on Sunday, October 11.
A congregational evensong will be offered at 4:00pm followed by an organ recital (4:40pm) performed by Angela Kraft Cross.
Angela Kraft Cross, San Francisco Bay Area organist 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 has released nine solo CD albums, recorded in California as well as in Paris, Lyon, London and Methuen. Since 2018, Lorenz Music/Sacred Music Press has published her compositions and has released nine books of her organ works. She served as the Organist/Artist in Residence of the Congregational Church of San Mateo 1993-2025.
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 since 2014 supporting young concert organists withscholarships on short intensive overseas study trips. She serves on the board of the Organ Historical Society and is Co-Music Director of the Junior Bach Festival. She is a member of the Concert Artist Cooperative III.
PROGRAM
Played in fond memory of Sandra Soderlund
Georg Muffat Toccata Nona from Apparatus musico-organisticus
Angela Kraft Cross Pavane-Galliard (2026)
Robert Schumann Canon in C major, Opus 56 No. 1
Johannes Brahms Herzlich tut mich verlangen Opus 122 No. 10
Felix Mendelssohn Sonata in A major Opus 65 No. 3
Con moto maestoso
Andante tranquillo
J. S. Bach Prelude and Fugue in A minor, BWV 543
A reception will follow the program.
Parking is available in the parish lot at 2315 Ellsworth.
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Future Artists include:
November 8: Katya Kolesnikova, Unitarian Universalist Church of Berkeley
December 13: No Recital
January 10, 2027: John Karl Hirten, St. John’s, Ross
February 14: Jackson Merrill, St. Thomas Church, Fifth Avenue, NYC
March 14: Jacob Benda, College of St. Thomas, St. Paul, MN
April 11: Margaret Martin Kvamme, Los Gatos, CA
May 9: John Nothaft, Lewinsville Presbyterian Church, McLean, VA
June 13: Stephen Buzard, Grace Cathedral, San Francisco