Sonja Kahler smiling in a red suit in front of pipe organ pipes

About

Sonja Kahler has served as musician for Lutheran churches in the metro-Washington, DC region since 1995. She holds a graduate performance diploma in organ from the Peabody Institute of the Johns Hopkins University (with professors Jeremy Filsell and Donald Sutherland), a master’s in organ performance from Northwestern University (with professors Richard Webster and Wolfgang Rübsam), and a bachelor’s from Valparaiso University (with professors Martin Jean and Philip Gehring). She also majored in journalism as an undergraduate. As a copy editor and writer she has appeared on the mastheads of Kiplinger Magazine and the Oakland Tribune, written tour guides for the FDR Memorial, Rock Creek Park, Arlington National Cemetery, and other National Park Service sites around the nation’s capital, and edited documents for businesses ranging from nonprofits to Fortune 100 companies.

CAPITAL finds

surprising organ music from the USA’s capital & others

Recorded on the 2002 Lively-Fulcher organ at the Franciscan Monastery of the Holy Land in America, Washington, DC. Works by Klobučar, Wiedermann, Arnatt, Pott, and Kahler. Raven OAR-201.

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