Janice Kapp Perry Collection
Janice Kapp Perry was born in Ogden, Utah, raised in Vale, Oregon, and currently lives in Provo, Utah. She and her husband Douglas have five children, 13 grandchildren, and 18 great-grandchildren. Through the years they have also welcomed many foster children into their home.
Janice received her musical training at Brigham Young University in Provo and has been writing and recording gospel music for over 40 years. Her hymn As Sisters in Zion is in the LDS hymnal and she has ten songs in the Children’s Songbook. She has produced 108 albums of recorded music (including some in Spanish, Portuguese, Japanese, Korean, and Mandarin), two full-length musicals, and many sacred cantatas and musical firesides. During the last 20 years, she has dedicated herself to hymn writing with a variety of text writers and has written close to 400 hymns.
Janice served as Relief Society President in her Provo ward and retired from singing with the Mormon Tabernacle Choir in 1999. The Perrys served a full-time mission to Santiago Chile from 2002-03 and traveled the world giving musical firesides until Doug passed away in 2018. In 2008 BYU Broadcasting filmed a 60-minute documentary of her life entitled Janice Kapp Perry: A Life of Service and Song.
Janice has received the following awards:• 1994 - Exemplary Woman award - Ricks College1997 - BYU Alumni Distinguished • Service award2001 - Lifetime Achievement award - Faith Centered Music • Association2019 - Utah Honorary Mother of Achievement award - American • Mothers2019 - Lifetime Achievement award - LDS Film Festival2019 - Lifetime • Achievement award - LDS Publisher’s Media Association2020 - Conferred a Doctor of Christian Service in Music from Brigham Young UniversityIn 2019 Janice started the process of donating all her papers (journals, original manuscripts, etc.) to the L. Tom Perry Special Collections at the BYU Harold B. Lee Library.
Christmas: A Carol Cantata
00033* Christmas cantata for mixed chorus, narration, and solos for medium treble voice, tenor, and baritone. Reveals the traditional message of Christ...
View full detailsFrom Cumorah's Hill - Cantata
20400Best-selling musical presentation by Steven Kapp Perry and Brad Wilcox relating the Book of Mormon to our day, with SATB, soloists, and readers. Ti...
View full detailsA Bethlehem Christmas - Cantata
00024Christmas cantata for mixed chorus (SATB) and scriptural narration. Events covered in this arrangement are Christ's birth, the angels' message to ...
View full detailsThe Promise of Easter - Cantata
79810Easter cantata for mixed chorus and narration, which can be performed by one person or several people. Musical numbers included: The Promise of Eas...
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20430Cantata by Steven Kapp Perry—a musical presentation on the holy temples for chorus, soloists, and readers. Composer: Steven Kapp Perry Arranger: Gr...
View full detailsChristmas Light Christmas Joy - Cantata
00424Cantata for mixed chorus, which retells the account of Christ in the Book of Mormon, with scriptural narration from the Book of Mormon and the book...
View full detailsRemember Me - cantata
19800Easter cantata for mixed chorus (SATB) with some soprano division, all voicing written within the medium range. Includes original narration by Jani...
View full detailsThis is Jesus - Cantata
10070Cantata for choir, soloists, and readers, based on the introduction to Jesus the Christ by James E. Talmage, arranged for piano or organ accompanim...
View full detailsThe Savior of the World - Cantata
79800* Easter cantata with words by Joy Saunders Lundberg, written for 10 character parts and light costuming. Solos are written for a female with mediu...
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00563Original Christmas cantata, arranged for mixed chorus, two solos for medium voice (or sung by the section), scriptural narration from the Bible, a...
View full detailsThe Broken Bread - Cantata
19830A sacred Easter cantata for mixed chorus (SATB), soloists, and narrators. Composer: Janice Kapp Perry Lyrics & Narration: John V. Pearson Diffi...
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01337From the sacred cantata "Christmas Light, Christmas Joy" for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano. Composer: Janice Kapp Perry Lyricist: Rodney Turner Di...
View full detailsLet the Morning Come - Cantata
10220IOS "A musical celebration of Joseph Smith & the Restoration." Includes the following song titles:Overture/Light from HeavenWaiting for the Lig...
View full detailsTitle of Liberty - Cantata - SATB
00350Patriotic cantata for SATB voicing, narration, two male solos, based on scriptural text from Ether 2:10: "For behold, this is a land which is choic...
View full detailsThe Book of Mormon Has Come Forth - Cantata
10280A musical fireside presentation for choir, soloists and narrators. Includes the songs "The Book of Mormon Has Come Forth" (#1847), "By The Waters o...
View full detailsFamily A Joyful Proclamation!
20420A cantata written to celebrate the Proclamation on the Family, for chorus, soloists, and readers. Original songs include: Children of God, In Whose...
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00636Original choral arrangement for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano accompaniment in D major, from Janice Kapp Perry's Christmas cantata "Christmas Ligh...
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