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 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 detailsChristmas: A Holiday of the Heart - Vocal Solos
10500A delightful collection of thoughtful Christmas solos, arranged for solo, two-part, and SSA medium voices. Songs in this collection: First Christma...
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 detailsThat Night in the Stable - SATB (Digital Download)
01821dOnly available as a PDF download. Christmas anthem for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano. Composer: Janice Kapp Perry Arranger: Oliver White Lyricist:...
View full detailsCome to the Manger
40110This songbook contains 11 original songs by Orrin Hatch and Janice Kapp Perry, produced and arranged by Greg Hansen. Included are: The Shining Star...
View full detailsSing a Song of Christmas - Cantata
19810Christmas cantata for mixed chorus (SATB), with some division in sopranos and altos, narration, and piano accompaniment. Songs included in this can...
View full detailsWhen I Saw Mary's Little Child - SATB
00612Original Christmas carol arranged for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano, from the cantata "Christmas Light, Christmas Joy" by Perry and Turner. Highes...
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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 detailsSon of Mary, Son of God - SATB
01337From the sacred cantata "Christmas Light, Christmas Joy" for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano. Composer: Janice Kapp Perry Lyricist: Rodney Turner Di...
View full detailsMessage in Motion - songbook
20210Vocal song collection, including those for Christmas by Steven Kapp Perry for medium and low voices, arranged for solos or duets. Guitar chords are...
View full detailsThe King of Little Children - SATB
00368Original Christmas carol for mixed chorus (SATB) and piano, illustrating the love the Lord has for His little ones, written in E flat major: "The ...
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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...
View full detailsChristmas: A Carol Cantata - Orchestration
20045Orchestration score and parts for - Christmas: A Carol Cantata (#00033), performed in place of the piano accompaniment. Composer: Lewis H. Redner /...
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