Kurt Kaiser: Icon and Conscience of Contemporary Christian Music

At the age of four or five, a young boy made his way to the piano in his Chicago home and picked out a recognizable tune. His German-American parents sensed they had witnessed something special. They would embrace their son’s gift for music as God-given, and as a responsibility both for them and for him to steward.

Little did his parents know that Kurt Kaiser (1934-2018) would go on to become one of the most influential church musicians of the modern era. His musicianship, especially as a pi...