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.
Believe in Christ - SSATB
01884This beautiful medley features some of the most well-loved songs about Christ and has been arranged for mixed chorus (SSATB) and piano. This is th...
View full detailsAs Sisters in Zion - Vol. 2 - Piano Solos
00384Ten beautiful intermediate piano solo arrangements of LDS sacred hymns. Arrangements in this volume:Guide Me to TheeHow Firm a FoundationI Know Th...
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...
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...
View full detailsMy God Is Love - Collection
40020Songs in this collection include several ranges of voice, written for solos, SATB, SATB and solo, SAATTBB (a cappella), and SSAATBB. Guitar chords ...
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...
View full detailsGod Did Provide Himself a Lamb – SATB
01244Extremely moving Easter anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano, featuring time changes from 2/2 to 3/2 to add import to certain measures, with s...
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