About the organists

Jonathan Dimmock is principal organist at the Legion of Honor, organist for the San Francisco Symphony, director of music at Congregation Sherith Israel, and a freelance performer. He is cofounder of the highly acclaimed American Bach Soloists, founding director of Artists’ Vocal Ensemble, and founder and executive director of the Resonance Project. He was the first American to hold the prestigious position of organ scholar of Westminster Abbey, and has recorded more than 50 CDs including a Grammy winner with the San Francisco Symphony.

Dr. Joy-Leilani Garbutt is an organist, musicologist, and cofounder of the Boulanger Initiative, a nonprofit dedicated to supporting music composed by women through performance, education, and commissions. A Fulbright scholarship awardee, she spent a year in France researching early 20th-century organ music by female composers; her work amplifying female organists has been twice featured in the New York Times. She also serves as the director of music for St. Luke’s Episcopal Church in San Francisco, and is associate musician and director of the girls’ choir at Grace Cathedral.

David Hegarty is principal organist of San Francisco’s Castro Theatre, plays concerts at the Stanford Theatre in Palo Alto, and has been playing monthly concerts at the Legion of Honor since 1998. As an avid film music researcher, he specializes in writing and performing transcriptions and arrangements of the music from Hollywood’s Golden Age. He was editor of the Sacred Organ Journal and has appeared in such venues as Washington DC’s Kennedy Center, the Crystal Cathedral, San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral, and Davies Symphony Hall.

Angela Kraft Cross is a San Francisco Bay Area organist, pianist, and composer. She has given over 500 concerts on organ and piano across the United States, Canada, England, Holland, France, Hungary, Lesotho, and Guam. She performed as a soloist with local Bay Area ensembles — Master Sinfonia Orchestra, Soli Deo Gloria, Sine Nomine, Masterworks Chorale, Viva la Musica, and the San Jose Symphonic Choir — as well as Seattle’s Philharmonia Northwest Chamber Orchestra and the Skagit Symphony in northern Washington.

Christopher Keady is the interim director of music at Grace Cathedral in San Francisco, where he serves as principal accompanist for the Cathedral Choir of Men and Boys and performs on the cathedral’s Alexander Memorial Organ. Keady was assistant organist at Trinity Episcopal Cathedral in Portland, Oregon, and course organist for the Pacific Northwest RSCM Training Course. Keady studied organ at Lewis and Clark College and completed a master of music in organ performance at the Institute of Sacred Music at Yale University.